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College Admissions - Larger Picture
Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease
New York Times, NY - Mar 8, 2008
High school seniors nationwide are anxiously awaiting the verdicts from the colleges of their choice later this month. But though it may not be of much solace to them, in just a few years the admissions frenzy is likely to ease. It’s simply a matter of demographics...
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Population Shift Sends Universities Scrambling
Washington Post, DC - Mar 10, 2008
Colleges and universities are anxiously taking steps to address a projected drop in the number of high school graduates in much of the nation starting next year and a dramatic change in the racial and ethnic makeup of the student population, a phenomenon expected to transform the country's higher education landscape, educators and analysts said....
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
A peek into college admissions
Houston Chronicle, TX - Mar 9, 2008
The first applicant's transcript showed a B-plus average at a good high school. Despite a learning disability, he took rigorous courses, and his SAT score was 1870 out of a possible 2400. He played three sports and wrote about his passion for the saxophone in his essay.
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What do colleges look for? Good grades
Brattleboro Reformer, VT - Mar 11, 2008
A new admissions officer at an elite college was exhausted from reading dozens of repetitive applications. The newcomer quietly asked an experienced colleague how the latter stay focused while reading endless applications. The old timer replied, "Who reads 'em?". In reality, college admissions departments carefully review applications, but this story points out that it's important for an application to be interesting and able to convey a student's uniqueness. ..
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Colleges Reduce Out-of-State Tuition to Lure Students
New York Times, NY - Mar 8, 2008
HAYWARD, Calif. — California State University, East Bay, has never had the cachet of nearby Berkeley. But it has a great location overlooking the San Francisco Bay and aspires to raise its profile and grow. So starting this year it is trying something different to lure applicants: participating in a regional program resulting in lower tuition for students from Washington, Oregon, Montana and a dozen other Western states...
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Colleges look at whole picture when considering students
International Herald Tribune, France - Mar 11, 2008
Admissions 101 Colleges look at whole picture when considering students A student's academic record, grades in core classes, standardized test scores and the intangibles are what college admissions directors look for when selecting students for their schools...
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Why panic about college?
The News Journal, DE - Mar 9, 2008
This spring, I along with high school juniors around the United States will begin the "college process" -- two words synonymous with the prolonged frenzy that is a rite of passage for American students. Most of us are terrified -- with good reason. ...
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Parents
College Admissions: How
Involved Should Parents Get?
Wall Street Journal, NY - Mar 13, 2008
After bending her work schedule to help her older daughter apply to college a few years ago, Suzanne Ducharme knew the admissions competition looming for her younger daughter would be tougher. So as her second daughter neared college, Ms. Ducharme, a New York human-resources manager, did what seemed the only sensible thing: She quit her job, she says, "to be here full time" with her daughter as she applied...
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Safety Needs To Be Prep For College
The Chattanoogan, TN - Mar 6, 2008
As reported today, yet another young woman has been murdered while at college, this time at Auburn University. I am not a parent, but am a mature graduate student at a local university. Universities are much more accountable in reporting campus crime to students than they were when I was in school in the 1970's, but this is not enough...
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College administrators advise ‘helicopter parents': Back off
The Chattanoogan, TN - Mar 6, 2008
As college acceptance letters drop in mailboxes for the Class of 2012 next month, there's something parents might consider doing now. Back off. If you wrote your kid's college application essay, or you think nothing of rushing to campus to mediate your child's squabble with a roommate, there's a name for you: helicopter parents...
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Parent- teacher talks can get heated
Los Angeles Times, CA - Mar 10, 2008
Parent-teacher conferences are a time-honored school tradition, but for many teachers they are also trying, emotionally wrought encounters. These days, the sessions are taking on a new look as schools contend with assertive or no-show parents as well as higher academic stakes that can cause tensions..
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How parents can navigate through middle school
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - Mar 11, 2008
Jeffrey strode into his room with his head down and shut the door. After 15 minutes, Lynn knocked and said, "Anything I can help with?" "Nope," came the reply. "What's going on?" "Nothing." "You seem upset." "I don't want to talk about it. Please stop asking me questions."...
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College Admissions - Virtual Visits
The End User: Virtual college fairs
MyWestTexas.com, TX - Mar 11, 2008
Teenager that she is, my niece can't seem to drag herself away from her SMSing, IMing and general all-around social networking to get serious about college - which is a bit of a problem, since she is graduating from high school in just a couple of months.
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Firm gives real look at colleges
Baltimore Sun, MD - Mar 11, 2008
In the new Disney film College Road Trip, a hyper-suspicious, over-protective police-chief father portrayed by Martin Lawrence takes his long-suffering daughter on a costly road trip to visit the college of her choice, Georgetown, which is halfway across the country, instead of the college of his choice, Northwestern, which is just around the corner...
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College Admissions - Rejection and Stress
A Cure for the College-Bound Blues
New York Times, NY - Mar 9, 2008
BY the time she graduated from high school, Sabrina Skau needed a break. She was 18. She was exhausted. While high school passes with the plodding pace of a marathon for some students, Ms. Skau, who graduated from David Douglas High School in Portland, Ore., last June, approached it more like a 26-mile sprint. Setting her sights on admission to college, she took three college-level Latin courses at Portland State University the summer after eighth grade.
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The college rejection letter
Boston Globe, MA - Mar 10, 2008
THE REJECTIONS arrive this time of year in thin, cheap envelopes, some with a crummy window for name and address, as if it were a bill, and none with the thick packet you'd hoped for. 'Dear So-and-so: ''The admissions committee gave full consideration . . . but I regret to inform you we will be unable to offer you a place in the Class of 2012." Lots of applicants, limited number of spaces, blah blah blah, good luck ...
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Test Of Nerves
The Hartford Courant, CT - Mar 10, 2008
THE REJECTIONS arrive this time of year in thin, cheap envelopes, some with a crummy window for name and address, as if it were a bill, and none with the thick packet you'd hoped for. 'Dear So-and-so: ''The admissions committee gave full consideration . . . but I regret to inform you we will be unable to offer you a place in the Class of 2012." Lots of applicants, limited number of spaces, blah blah blah, good luck ...
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The curse of college applications
Classes, activities and stress pile up
The curse of college applications
Waterbury Republican American, CT - Mar 9, 2008
College has become a curse word among some high school students, who find themselves stressing out over their prospects of being accepted into their schools of choice. On average, students are applying to between six and 10 schools each ...
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South
New strategies help schools prepare pupils for work force
The Augusta Chronicle, GA - Mar 9, 2008
Educators spend a great deal of time and energy preparing their students for post-secondary studies. Ultimately, however, these students will have to get a job, and local school systems are trying to prepare them for the 21st century work force. "This K-12 journey that these students are on has one destination. That's work," said Michael Canady, the Columbia County school system's director of career and technology education. "What are we doing to prepare them for that?"...
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Voucher idea for Texas dropouts resisted
Dallas Morning News, TX - Mar 11, 2008
AUSTIN – A special committee charged with drafting a plan to reduce the high school dropout rate was urged Monday by several education groups to not open the door to a voucher program that would allow dropouts to re-enroll in private schools at state expense...
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Athletic Scholarships
It’s Not an Adventure, It’s a Job
New York Times, NY - Mar 12, 2008
A few months into her first year at Villanova, Stephanie Campbell was despondent. As a high school senior in New Jersey, she had been thrilled to receive a $19,000 athletic scholarship to play field hockey at Villanova University, a select, private institution outside Philadelphia. But she had not counted on the 7 a.m. start of every class day, something required so she could be in the locker room by noon ...
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Private Counselors
Admissions Group to Tackle Conflict of Interest Issues
Inside Higher ED, DC - Mar 10, 2008
Many admissions officials were aghast in February to find out that some private admissions consultants — people paid by parents to navigate the college admissions process for their children — were also holding paid jobs with colleges or high schools...
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Bullying
Bullying a national problem
Hagerstown Morning Herald, MD - Mar 9, 2008
WASHINGTON COUNTY - After a boy started a rumor that they'd had sex in a school bathroom, a Washington County Public Schools student said she was teased unmercifully for the rest of the school year. The boy's friends called her a "slut" and a "bitch" in almost every class, almost every day...
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Impact of bullying can last a lifetime
Hagerstown Morning Herald, MD - Mar 9, 2008
WASHINGTON COUNTY - Karen Reilly pulled her son out of a Washington County public school after he endured years of bullying from his classmates. Her son suffered verbal abuse for the most part. The situation also became physical at one point.
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