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College Admissions - Larger Picture
Despite debt, college still worth cost -- to a degree
Chicago Sun-Times, IL - May 5, 2008
Karnell Black faced a difficult decision his senior year at a Dallas high school: He liked his job as a law firm file clerk and was making decent money -- $10 an hour. His family wasn't pushing him to go college, which he knew would be expensive. Should he apply, take out loans to attend, and then try to succeed in college when no one else in his family had gone?
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Renewed emphasis on gaps in college success for minorities
Christian Science Monitor, MA - May 2, 2008
For Eric Adolphe, the price of an engineering degree included homelessness and hunger. Attending The City College of New York in the 1980s, he was down to his last $1.75 and had to skip breakfast so he could buy train fare to get to a crucial exam...
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The Admissions Effect
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - May 7, 2008
In my last post on homework comparisons by major, several commentators remarked upon the poor work ethic of the students and the declining demands of the syllabus. Kids don’t have to read, write, memorize, or inquire as much as they used to, and grades still linger in the B and higher range....
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The Gap in Graduation Rates
U.S. News & World Report, DC - May 2, 2008
Siedah Crichton was a high school senior peering down the various paths for college when she heard about something that helped make her choice easier. It was a comprehensive support program for low-income, first-generation college students at Florida State University called care, the Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement...
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College FinAid - Larger Picture
Aid helps some, boosts college cost for others
Indianapolis Star, IN - May 8, 2008
In 2004, economist Richard Vedder created a mini-sensation with his book "Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much.'' In a nutshell, the book argued that financial aid causes tuition to rise. "The evidence is pretty persuasive that massive governmental infusions of funds . . . have contributed to the upsurge in higher education costs," he said...
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Group Says New Law Will Cost College Families $8,000
Salem-News.Com, OR - May 6, 2008
(BOCA RATON, Fla.) - In 2007, the College Cost Reduction Act (H.R. 2669) increased both the Pell Grant (benefiting students) and the Stafford Loan (benefiting colleges & lenders). While there are far more Stafford borrowers than Pell recipients, the rich got richer at the expense of those less affluent...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Should I Mention Depression on My College Application?
U.S. News & World Report, DC - May 1, 2008
Growing up in New York City, Emily Isaac studied Hebrew, performed in school musicals, and played soccer. She fantasized about going to a prestigious university like Harvard and becoming a lawyer for Hollywood celebrities. But her drive and ambition faded when she reached high school. She ignored homework assignments and argued with teachers...
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Tips to Help Wait-Listed Students Get Accepted
U.S. News & World Report, DC - May 2, 2008
May 1—the day high school seniors are supposed to finally commit to a college—traditionally ends the intense wooing and anxiety of the admissions season. But not this year for thousands of hopefuls like Alix Elsen, a senior at Oregon Episcopal School in Portland...
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Top schools want more than grades
The Patriot-News - PennLive.com, PA - May 6, 2008
Caroline Olt, a Lower Dauphin High School senior, is going to the University of Pennsylvania, one of eight schools in the Ivy League. She has stellar grades and high SAT scores. But she said she needed a hook to get in: field hockey...
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How to Choose a College
Forbes - May 1, 2008
The most popular rankings use the wrong measures. This time of year, as they make the momentous decision of where to go to college, high school seniors are turning to popular rankings compiled by magazines like U.S. News & World Report. There are competing scorecards from the Princeton Review and Kiplinger's, but U.S. News' product is way out in front in visibility; in addition to its usual circulation of 2 million
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Students, colleges play waiting game
Patriot News, MA - May 1, 2008
It will extend the courtship dance that students and colleges engage in ... further into the summer," he said. An official at Penn State University attested to the complexity of this year's admissions cycle. For the second consecutive year, Penn State has a waiting list of freshmen who have been admitted and want to attend the State College campus. ...
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West
Plight of school counselors
Ventura County Star, CA - May 8, 2008
Counselor Nicole Vitto works the teachers' lounge at Aspen School in Thousand Oaks long before the first bell rings.She walks around, checking in with teachers as they sip from coffee mugs, asking about a student who had missed school, a child who was picked on by classmates, another who regularly disrupts class...
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Foundation donates millions to students
San Jose Mercury News, CA - May 7, 2008
A Bay Area foundation has pledged as much as $50 million to help needy students at California community colleges in what is thought to be the largest gift ever donated to the nation's two-year institutions. The San Francisco-based Bernard Osher Foundation...
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Great ad for studying at community colleges
Los Angeles Times, CA - May 7, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is probably the most famous product of California's 109 community colleges, though perhaps an imperfect advertisement for their value. He was among the speakers Tuesday at a event in Sacramento to mark a $70-million gift from the Bernard Osher Foundation to provide scholarships to the state's community college students...
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WA high schools lose $13 million grant for AP teachers
Seattle Times, WA - May 7, 2008
Seven Washington high schools won't be getting their share of a $13.2 million grant to enhance the teaching of Advanced Placement courses in math in science. Washington state won the grant last year, but stakeholders haven't been able to figure out how to embrace the project that would include a financial incentive for teachers ...
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School Safety
Fatal Accidents Erode Perk of Off-Campus Lunches
New York Times, NY - May 6, 2008
SMITHTOWN, N.Y. — The students used to overflow the wooden booths and green tables at Don Jono’s Pizzeria, racing through pepperoni slices and large sodas before driving the quarter-mile back to Smithtown High School West in time for their next class...
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SATs, ACTs, & AP Tests
Five Lies About the SAT
Newsweek - May 1, 2008
Just a few weeks after an intensively competitive college-admissions season, the game is on again, with high-school juniors prepping for SAT tests in May. SAT performance may become even more important with the number of high-school ...
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Bursting the AP bubble
Los Angeles Times, CA - May 8, 2008
I'M AN AP DROPOUT. When classmates in my Advanced Placement U.S. history course take the AP exam Friday, I won't be with them. When they pick up their pencils and start filling in those little bubbles, I'll be reading the words of George Kennan, Lillian Hellman, Harry Truman and Paul Robeson ...
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AP exams test college-level knowledge
Los Angeles Times, CA - May 6, 2008
It's exam week for AP courses. Potentially grueling, a mark of achievement, perhaps a chance to start college a little ahead of the game...
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Parents
Parents can help, hurt process
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - May 8, 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, Ducharme, a human-resources manager, did what seemed the only sensible thing: She quit her job, she says, ...
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College students must get dumb before they get smart
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - May 8, 2008
The colleges of America adore baby boomers. They have to. As the parents of millions of undergrads, we write the checks that keep their schools afloat. Yet, as boomer moms and dads tromp around on admissions tours, no one gets an answer to this question: Will college make my kid smarter? ...
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I Know What You Did Last Math Class
New York Times, NY - May 8, 2008
ON school days at 2 p.m., Nicole Dobbins walks into her home office in Alpharetta, Ga., logs on to ParentConnect, and reads updated reports on her three children. Then she rushes up the block to meet the fourth and sixth graders’ buses....
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Paying
Options Give Many Ways To Pay For College
KPTV.com, OR - - May 7, 2008
A lot of high school seniors are getting fat college acceptance envelopes in the mail right now, and parents are wondering if they're wallets are fat enough to cover what's inside. Paying for college can be daunting, but parents and students have four main avenues of help, outside of money they've saved: grants, loans, scholarships and jobs....
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Help is on way to ease college money crunch
The Columbian, WA - May 4, 2008
Beth Rosenlund is a parent with a dilemma: She earns enough money so her 12-year-old daughter won’t qualify for significant college financial aid, but she doesn’t earn enough to save for college. “It’s a rut,” she said. “You either qualify or you don’t.”...
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