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College Admissions - Larger Picture
A Better Way? Success of Finnish students draws educators to study ...
Winston-Salem Journal, NC - Mar 27, 2008
HELSINKI, Finland - High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college, and kids don’t start school until age 7...
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Doomed to Disappoint Justice O’Connor
Inside Higher Ed, DC - Mar 26, 2008
Five years ago, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor saved affirmative action in public college admissions when she crafted the majority decision affirming the consideration of race in admissions by the University of Michigan’s law school. While O’Connor found justifications for the (limited) consideration of race and ethnicity, she also spoke of the need for such consideration to stop at some point...
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The tuition game
Yahoo News - Mar 26, 2008
April may be the cruelest month, but for high school seniors across the USA, March is the most nerve-wracking. Will I be accepted to my top choice college? And — just as critically — can I afford to go? Fortunately, getting in may not mean an empty wallet for those accepted to America's most elite universities this year.....
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
College admission is a marketing game
Marketplace, CA - Mar 24, 2008
Commentator and high school junior Morrisa Brenner is taking tests and filling out applications to get into college. In the process, she's learned that colleges are selling themselves just as much as prospective students....
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Rising above the crowd: How to get noticed in the college ...
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Mar 23, 2008
You've earned a 2200 SAT score, a 4.5 weighted GPA from Advanced Placement classes, and you've spent the summer building houses for the needy -- when you weren't playing the oboe or winning gymnastics medals. Think you're a lock for the college of your choice? Better think again...
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Put private-college costs into perspective for student
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Mar 26, 2008
It's all well and good to create a college list with "Reach," "Target" and "Safety" schools for students, but if the private college price point of $40,000-$50,000 per year has you cowering, then have the financial expectations talk sooner rather than later....
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Time for juniors to think about college
The Newark Advocate, OH - Mar 25, 2008
NEWARK — As the school year is geared up for the final quarter, and students may be thinking about summer vacation, it also is time for high school juniors to start thinking more seriously about life after graduation, school officials say....
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Vocational Training
Good pay, steady work, few takers as young people spurn the trades
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WA - Mar 23, 2008
...What has some educators and employers puzzled is that many of those professions offer the chance to make upward of $50,000 right away. But they say a negative perception of the trades coupled with a mounting push for college education has dealt the professions a hard blow in the United States...
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Waiting and Wait Listed
The vigil for college acceptance
Zanesville Times Recorder, OH - Mar 26, 2008
Hundreds of this area's high school seniors are hovering near their mailboxes, waiting for the fat envelope or the thin envelope that signals where they'll end up next fall...
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Students Wait Anxiously to Hear Back From Colleges
Idaho Statesman, ID - Mar 23, 2008
Mar. 26--Like many other high school seniors, Brooke Bettis is waiting to find out where she'll start school this fall.
It could be in Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia or Michigan. Bettis, an 18-year-old senior at Timberline High School in Boise, has applied to colleges in all five states, and in the coming weeks, she'll find out where she was accepted -- and where financial aid will help make paying tuition possible...
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Student agony grows along with top colleges' wait lists
Boston Globe, MA - Mar 27, 2008
Like jittery investors scrambling to hedge their bets, selective colleges and universities are placing far more applicants than usual on their waiting lists this spring as a safeguard against an unusually murky admissions season. But while the policy gives colleges some peace of mind, it plunges students into an admissions purgatory that could string out the stressful selection process for weeks to come...
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College Admissions Web Sites
College site deals and mom is hooked
GoErie.com, PA - Mar 27, 2008
College Confidential is often sensible and sweet. I now have a circle of online friends who are there for me any time, any day. Parents counsel and help one another, on one forum volunteering to serve as emergency contacts for other parents' children at far-away schools. Students, too, rise to impressive kindness. When a high school student confesses to feeling pain at a father's decision not to accompany her to college orientation, another kid weighed in with wisdom:....
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New websites give just the facts
Miami Herald, FL - Mar 23, 2008
For the YouTube generation comes a new way to explore colleges and universities. Online, of course, like everything else they do. In a hipper and more grassroots fashion than establishment stalwarts like the U.S. News & World Report rankings and other commercial ventures like Peterson's Guide....
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Northeast
Saturdays Offer New Boost for College
RedOrbit, TX - Mar 23, 2008
As 16 ninth-graders from Englewood talked recently about John Knowles' coming of age classic, "A Separate Peace," they traded ideas about sibling rivalry, initiation to manhood and lost innocence. What's unusual is that their discussion came on a Saturday afternoon on a college campus. These students are part of a new initiative, the New Jersey SEEDS College Prep Program, aimed at helping promising public school students of modest means get into top colleges...
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Don't count on an acceptance
Albany Times Union, NY - Mar 26, 2008
The window of Albany High School's counseling center blossoms with a spring display of college acceptance letters copied on colorful paper. Senior Kewsi Burgess hoped to get one from his top choice -- SUNY Oneonta. The Guyanese mmigrant sported an 86 average. He ran track. He joined clubs. He was a shoo-in, right? Wrong. Oneonta rejected Burgess. This 17-year-old's admissions story is one small piece of a statewide trend: SUNY colleges are getting more selective....
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State's Community College System Receives Grant
Hartford Courant, CT - Mar 25, 2008
The state's community college system has received a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to help prepare students for careers in manufacturing. About 750 students will be served by the grant in areas such as precision manufacturing and making aerospace components...
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Loans/FinAid
Letter: Aid to College Students
New York Times, NY - Mar 26, 2008
Timothy Egan’s dismissal of the unprecedented round of new student aid initiatives at private colleges and universities as cosmetic belies any reasonable interpretation of the word and calls for a reality check (“The Lords of Higher Learning,” column, March 18)...
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Credit woes put student loans in jeopardy
Houston Chronicle, TX - Mar 26, 2008
AUSTIN — The nation's credit crunch is taking a toll on a sector of the population that tends to be unemployed and untested when it comes to repaying debt: college students...
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Scholarships Schemes
Scholarship Schemes Abound This Time Of Year
KETV.com, NE - Mar 26, 2008
OMAHA, Neb. -- Paying for college can be difficult, so many moms and dads hold out hope that their children get a scholarship, but not all offers are created equal.Guidance counselors said all kinds of offers for college money hit mailboxes in the spring.....
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SATs & ACTs Prep
A Do-It-Yourself SAT Class, With No Whining, or Parents, Allowed
New York Times, NY - Mar 26, 2008
At 5:57 p.m., three minutes ahead of schedule, William Scott bent his lanky frame into the single chair at the front of Room 109. He clasped a set of grammar exercises, and he wore a sweatshirt with the M.I.T. logo. It was “Nerd Day” at Miami Springs High School, but he had chosen the attire with ambition in mind rather than irony...
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Practice testing More students turn to prep courses to boost SAT ...
Ventura County Star, CA - Mar 24, 2008
This year, thousands of high school students will spend a lot of time, and often a lot of money, taking SAT prep courses, hoping to boost their scores on the college entrance exam. But do those courses, which can cost thousands of dollars, really make any difference...
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Options expand for college test prep
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Mar 23, 2008
Need to flex your ocabulary muscle to get in shape for those college entrance exams or want to develop strategies to snag a better score? Grab your iPod and download one or all three $4.99 games developed by Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions to help students brush up on skills...
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Gap Year
Rankings
Getting Started on the College Rankings
U.S. News & World Report, DC - Mar 25, 2008
U.S. News & World Report already has begun work for the upcoming 2009 edition of America's Best Colleges rankings that are scheduled to be published in late August 2008. On March 21, 2008, we started the statistical data collection for information used to produce the America’s Best Colleges ...
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Books
BOOKS - Standing Out on Campus
Publishers Weekly - Mar 24, 2008
Test prep, college guides and the like comprise a publishing category that is relatively immune to fickle fashion or subject to change for change’s sake. The major players remain pretty much the same, and the focus remains steady: giving the goods on prepping for college to a constantly replenished market. ...
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Vocational
Waiting
Web Sites
Northeast
Loans/FinAid
Schemes
SAT Prep
Gap Year
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