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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.
Question of the Week
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Todays Question is on how high schools record the grade from dual enrollment programs?
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College Admissions - Larger Picture
Race controversy over aid
St. John's University The Torch, NY - Mar 29, 2006
Colleges and universities across the nation are making financial aid programs that were created specifically for minority students available to their entire student bodies...
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BYU, New College of Florida top buys
United Press International - Mar 28, 2006
NEW YORK, March 28 (UPI) -- Utah's Brigham Young University and the New College of Florida top the Princeton Review's lists of "best value" colleges. ...
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School admissions practices defended
Baltimore Sun, United States - Mar 28, 2006
By Brent Jones. Moving to defuse a controversy over lowered admission standards at some of Baltimore's elite high schools, two top ...
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Gender Gap
Paradox of the Perfect Girl
AlterNet, CA - Mar 29, 2006
While overachieving girls are knocking on the front doors of America's best colleges, admission officers are letting their slacker brothers slip in the back door...
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Kenyon's Policy Against Women Stirs a Debate
New York Sun, NY - Mar 27, 2006
A college admissions director's confession that female applicants are being rejected in order to admit less qualified men is roiling the higher education community and stirring debate about the goals of affirmative action. ...
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Trend on campus spells trouble
MaineToday.com, ME - Mar 27, 2006
Many of the faces in Kate Mitchell's remedial English class are profiles in boredom. One student suppresses a yawn. Another cracks a joke. A third peers down at a cell phone, distracted by a text message...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
The ABCs of choosing a college
Chicago Tribune, United States - Mar 29, 2006
By Stephen D. Schutt. It's spring again, and every college-bound high school senior is holding a nervous vigil by the mailbox waiting ...
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Applying to college takes ink, research
Roanoke Times, VA - Mar 27, 2006
In the old days -- back in 1980 -- when I applied to college, I naively applied to only one. Fortunately, I got in -- because I didn't have a fallback...
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Getting into college is a tough test
Buffalo News, United States - Mar 28, 2006
By JAY REY. It's a month of highs and lows and angst for college-bound seniors awaiting word from schools and wrestling with where ...
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Anxiety/Choosing/Rejection
Dining moves up on the college priority list
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Mar 29, 2006
Like millions of high school seniors across the country this month, Colin Braley of Oakton, Va., is trying to decide where to go to college...
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The school that got away
Baltimore Sun, United States - Mar 30, 2006
Getting a college rejection letter isn't the end of the world. In fact, it puts you in some pretty notable company. By Dan Thanh Dang and Jonathan Pitts. ...
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Admissions anxiety growing
DetNews.com, MI - Mar 23, 2006
Michael Martin has done well in the college admissions sweepstakes, having been accepted by eight universities and rejected by one. But he expects to hear from 12 more colleges in the next few weeks, including Georgetown, Wake Forest and the University of California, Los Angeles...
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SAT Scoring Errors
SATs score big on headaches
USA Today - Mar 27, 2006
Norah Webster wasn't surprised to learn this month that thousands of scores from SAT tests taken in October had been miscalculated...
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Students deserve competence in SAT scores
The Courier-Journal, IN - Mar 27, 2006
As if taking the SAT didn't give high school students enough anxiety. The news that thousands of SAT tests were incorrectly scored must be a rattling many college hopefuls right now...
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Time to Think
Civilrights.org, DC - Mar 29, 2006
In a perfect world, accommodations on the SAT would level the playing field for all test-takers with learning disabilities. Is that the case? ...
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The Testing Bubble Bursts
The Nation., NY - Mar 29, 2006
Looks like the $2.3 billion standardized testing industry forgot to devise a much needed self-examination...
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SAT Timed Test
Learning disabled left behind
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Mar 30, 2006
There's a girl I know who is a straight-A student in high school. She is poised, bright and organized, the kind who answers the ...
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Western News
Proposed cuts draw criticism
StateHornet.com, CA - Mar 29, 2006
Proposed cuts draw criticism
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting $7 million in the state budget from outreach programs in the California State University system, according to an Associated Students Inc. press release...
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Washington state colleges don't care about WASL scores
Scripps Howard News Service, DC - Mar 27, 2006
It was considered a big deal when it was announced just three years ago: The state's public universities would consider the Washington Assessment of Student Learning when making admission and scholarship decisions. The idea was to give the WASL some oomph...
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Wyoming to Offer Free ACT Tests for High School Students
KGWN, WY - Mar 29, 2006
The Legislature this year put up over $600,000 to cover the cost of offering the test free to Wyoming students. The program makes Wyoming one of only three states to offer the test for free. Currently Colorado and Illinois offer the test to all students ...
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AP Courses
Advanced Placement tests gaining influence
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - Mar 27, 2006
WASHINGTON - American high school seniors took more than 1.5 million Advanced Placement exams last year, dramatizing the rising influence of the accelerated classes on school curriculums, college admissions and assessment of schools and state education programs...
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The AP arms race
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Mar 24, 2006
WHILE WE WORRY about nuclear proliferation in Iran and the extensive deployment of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in Iraq, there is another arms race in America's high schools. Educators have dubbed it "the AP arms race." ...
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College Costs Issues
Finding the cash to pay for college
phillyBurbs.com, PA - Mar 23, 2006
Over the next month, parents of high school seniors will open their mailboxes to find financial aid packages from the colleges that have accepted their child. And many parents will begin wondering how they'll afford the next four years...
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Add everything up when considering a college financial aid package
Buffalo News, United States - Mar 30, 2006
NEW YORK - It's that time of year again. No, not tax time, it#39;s financial aid time for graduating high school seniors. Choosing among the complicated packages of loans, grants and student employment isn't easy but for many families it's the deciding factor in where to send their children to college.
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