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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
Early visits lure poor into college
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Mar 6, 2006
By Kate Moser | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor. CLINTON, NY Growing up in a working-class Boston neighborhood, Leide ...
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International Curriculum in Pa. Spotlight
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Mar 6, 2006
By JENNIFER C. YATES. PITTSBURGH (AP) - School board members in a Minnesota district call it anti-American and anti-Christian. In New Jersey, members of one school board argue it's a waste of money. Now, a suburban Pittsburgh school district is abolishing it over questions of politics and cost.
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College admissions decisions get harder
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Mar 5, 2006
Application files are piled high this month in colleges across the country. Admissions officers are poring over essays and recommendation letters, scouring transcripts and standardized test scores. But something is missing from many applications: a class ranking, once a major component in admissions decisions...
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Relax, It's Only College
Washington Post, United States - Mar 7, 2006
.It is college anxiety season. High school juniors are facing SAT or ACT tests. High school seniors are checking their mailboxes. Family peace and mental health are in jeopardy, but a new book has come to the rescue, "Getting In Without Freaking Out" by Arlene Matthews...
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SAT Scoring Errors
Colleges scramble amid SAT glitch
Boston Globe, United States - Mar 9, 2006
By Marcella Bombardieri and Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | March 9, 2006. College admissions officers in Massachusetts and elsewhere yesterday ...
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College Board Says 4,000 SAT Scores Wrong
Washington Post, United States - Mar 6, 2006
By JUSTIN POPE. -- About 4,000 students who took the main SAT college entrance exam last October received incorrectly low scores ...
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SAT's & ACT's
Outsmarting the SATs
Tracy Press, CA - Mar 7, 2006
It was 9 p.m. Thursday, and the temperature in the classroom at West High School was about 80 degrees.
Inside, 14 clammy, tired students were involved in a heated discussion about the best way to "find absolute value" and "solve for x" and do other things that make heads spin....
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
IN OR OUT?
Buffalo News, United States - Mar 6, 2006
A stack of college applications sits on her desk, arranged neatly into files of students awaiting word on whether they'll be accepted to the University at Buffalo.
Holding their future at UB in her hands is Barbara Rooney, who's perusing a high school transcript she marked with red ink...
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College applications:
San Jose Mercury News, USA - Mar 7, 2006
For seniors, the college application process is nearly over. It can be tenuous, speculative and confusing. But it doesn't have to be. So as we're waiting for our acceptance or rejection letters to start arriving and because we're fresh from the
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College Admissions Advice: Start Early
Springdale Morning News, AR - Mar 6, 2006
Bethany Haefner admits feeling overwhelmed when applying for college. Haefner, a Bentonville High School senior, started a year and a half ago looking at where she would spend the four years after high school ...
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College Admissions, Aid Topics For Online Chat
North Country Gazette, NY - Mar 6, 2006
ALBANY--Students and parents can learn about college admissions and financial aid at a free, interactive online chat event on Tuesday, March 21 at 7 p.m. The event is hosted by Mapping Your Future, a public service Web site sponsored by the New York State Higher Education Services Corp. (HESC)...
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MySpace.com etc.
What you say online could haunt you
USA Today - Mar 8, 2006
College student Michael Guinn thought the photos he posted of himself dressed in drag would be seen only by friends. But he made a mistake.
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Private Counselors
Admissions Consultancies Continue to Grow
AACRAO Transcript, DC - Mar 4, 2006
Parents are increasingly hiring private consultants to help their children get into college, reports The Associated Press. Mark Sklarow, executive director of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, said the number of consultants in his organization has more than tripled in the past ten years, and the growth is expected to continue...
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College Visits
Judy McNeeley: Campus visits are cultural anthropology
Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - Mar 5, 2006
If Aesop were alive today, he just might divide high-school students into two groups: grasshoppers and ants. Roughly translated: Those who party and those who work hard. This column, by an independent adviser to local high-school students, is for the ants. Studious, serious-minded, college-bound ants ... and their families.
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Making the Most of Spring Break By Visiting College Campuses
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Mar 6, 2006
Spring break is right around the corner and that means an opportune time for college-bound high school seniors
to visit college campuses. In doing so, students and families will get an up-close look at potential schools of choice, helping them to experience college before actually making the final decision...
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College Marketing Technology
The Electronic Lowdown on Colleges
New York Times, United States - Mar 8, 2006
LET me say from the outset that my college-bound daughter has never won an Olympic medal for speed skating. The author describes the arcana of Ivy League admission.
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Class Ranking
Officials Dismiss Ranking Concerns
Harvard Crimson, MA - Mar 7, 2006
With high schools steadily abandoning class rankings frustrating many college admissions officers Harvard admissions officials said they are unfazed by the decrease in quantitative information that high schools provide about students...
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Colleges Say Excluding Class Rank Slows Admissions Process
KCCI.com, IA - Mar 7, 2006
Iowa colleges and universities are busy processing student applications for admission. But the process is becoming a bit more complicated for admission counselors. More high schools are opting to exclude a student's class rank from his or her transcript...
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How Important Are High School Rankings?
13WHAM-TV, NY - Mar 7, 2006
Class rankings allow students to know where they stand among their peers. However, some high schools are no longer ranking students, including at least one Rochester-area school...
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College Cost Issues
Cost Remains a Key Obstacle to College Access
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - Mar 6, 2006
Which obstacle blocks students more from making a successful transition from school to college: preparation or financial need? That is an underlying question that runs through many debates about how high school students move on to higher education or don't move on. The Chronicle asked two scholars to give their views ...
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Shrinking that US college bill
Jamaica Observer, Jamaica - Mar 4, 2006
After the euphoria of college acceptances wears off, families must grapple with the insanity of college economics. Back in 1988, when many of this current crop of high school seniors were smearing their highchairs with strained carrots, nobody would have dreamed that it could cost $175,000 or more just to send one kid to a fancy university ...
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Midwest News
Tougher-admissions bid is met with praise, pause
Indianapolis Star, United States - Mar 5, 2006
IU-Bloomington leaders want world-class undergraduates to match their world-class research. Collin's class of 2011 would be the first to meet tougher entry requirements at the school's flagship campus under a faculty plan that IU trustees looked at last week...
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Granholm Introduces New Online Class for College/Job Prep
WLNS, MI - Mar 6, 2006
Great resources await some students for online courses thanks to the governor. Ms. Granholm, along with a Microsoft representative, held a news conference in Lansing. They announced a grant from the company to support the development of an online course for students to give them the skills they need to succeed in college and when they need to find a job. The state school superintendent gives the idea high marks ...
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UM raises low-income student recruiting
Detroit Free Press, United States - Mar 7, 2006
BY MARYANNE GEORGE. The University of Michigan is one of five private colleges and three public universities to team up with a private ...
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Counselors High School Programs
Program offers life lessons
Bradenton Herald, United States - Mar 4, 2006
The sixth-grader sits in a circle with a group of his friends at Perkins Middle School and opens his heart. He speaks of the pain he feels because his father has not been part of his life.
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