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This weekly email searches main media outlets finding stories that may be of interest to high school counselors, college admission officers and related organizations, with links to the original stories. It is published by de facto, inc., publishers of other e-newsletters.
College Admissions - Larger Picture
The Importance of Critical Mass
Inside Higher Ed, DC - Jun 7, 2006
Some selective institutions go to great lengths to recruit talented minority students and to make sure they graduate, but less attention is paid to how well ...
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US colleges are envy of the world
Pioneer Press, MN - Jun 8, 2006
As millions of Americans attended college graduations recently, their minds probably drifted during platitude-laden speeches and long recitations of names. Probably few reflected on how our diverse, decentralized system of higher education contributes to U.S. prosperity...
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Affirmative action back to top court
Chicago Tribune, United States - Jun 6, 2006
By Gail Gibson, Tribune Newspapers: Baltimore Sun; Tribune news services contributed. The divisive debate over affirmative action ...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Study suggests strategies for Ivy League wannabes
Washington Times, DC - Jun 4, 2006
Cheerleading or writing, swimming or civic-mindedness -- which competitive, brainy or virtuous extracurricular activity is the ticket to those ivy-covered halls?
After analyzing the trajectories of about 9,000 students, a pair of Harvard University researchers have ranked the affects of youthful extras on the college admission process, which they deemed "increasingly mysterious to students, parents and guidance counselors alike."
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A boot camp for the college-bound
Albany Times Union, NY - Jun 5, 2006
Pop quiz. Which of these really irritates college admissions officers? (A) Giving them e-mail contacts like beerblaster13@aol.com or sexymomma@yahoo.com...
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Students go the extra mile for college acceptance
Houston Chronicle, United States - Jun 4, 2006
This summer, Mini Reddy, 17, will guide tours at the Health Museum and follow doctors and medical students around the Texas Medical Center. The internships do not pay, ...
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SAT/ACT
SATs spark varied responses
Corvallis Gazette Times, OR - Jun 2, 2006
As the end of the school year rapidly approaches, so do all of the wrap-up activities that come along with it. Senior students prepare to leave high school and enter college or the workforce, while other students think about preparation for the upcoming summer and the school year to follow...
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Most Colleges Still Want SATs
13WHAM-TV, NY - Jun 8, 2006
Kristen Miranda (Henrietta, N.Y.) Starting with the class that enters in fall 2007, Hobart and William Smith Colleges will no longer require applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores ...
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Summer
Lost Summer for the College-Bound
New York Times, United States - Jun 2, 2006
TO listen to Craig Nadler, you might wonder when it stopped being fun to be a teenager. Maybe it was during this school year. Craig, 18, has been juggling five Advanced Placement classes with a spot on the varsity tennis team, the presidency of the school's Safe Rides program and his work as a mentor to freshmen...
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Heller: No more lazy, hazy days of summer for kids
Austin American-Statesman (subscription), TX - Jun 5, 2006
Parents want children to enjoy a memorable summer children do, too with experiences they can access for years to come, though this becomes harder by the season. Camps are specialized beyond recognition. There are lacrosse camps and basketball camps and baseball training sessions, which sound suspiciously like creeping pre-professionalism
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Midwest News
College tries texting letters of admission
Daily Cardinal, WI - Jun 1, 2006
What keeps your fingers awake during power lectures and connected to your friends at bar time is catching on with college admissions officers. Nationwide, universities are communicating with admissions candidates via text message ...
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Course prepares students for all classes
The Exponent, Indiana - Jun 7, 2006
Purdue University is offering a class this summer that will teach you how to survive in college. This course is geared towards students who are looking to improve skills for other classes such as reading and expanding vocabulary...
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Project gets college freshmen ready to write
Minnesota Public Radio, MN - Jun 8, 2006o
As the school year comes to an end, many graduating high school seniors are gearing up for fall college classes. Statistics show many high school graduates have a rude awakening ahead of them...
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3,300 fail exit exam, graduate anyway
Indianapolis Star, United States - Jun 8, 2006
More than 3,300 high school seniors graduated from Indiana public schools last year even though they flunked the state's graduation test five times...
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High School - Pranks & Cutting
Study: 1 in 5 students practice self-injury
CNN - Jun 5, 2006
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Nearly 1 in 5 students at two Ivy League schools say they have purposely injured themselves by cutting, burning or other methods, a disturbing phenomenon that psychologists say they are hearing about more often...
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Teen pranks no longer seen as child's play
Dallas Morning News (subscription), TX - Jun 4, 2006
When a high school senior delivered marijuana-laced muffins to a group of hungry teachers last month, sending 19 people to the hospital, teenage logic stumbled into the path of a society short on tolerance. ...
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Popular Trends
Survey: iPods more popular than beer in colleges
WWMT, MI - Jun 8, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Move over Bud. College life isn't just about drinking beer. In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most "in" thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual market research study by Ridgewood, N.J.-based Student Monitor...
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