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College - Larger Picture
Affirmative Action: How Far Have We Come?
NPR - Aug 15. 2010
Supporters of affirmative action rallied in front the Supreme Court after the ruling on the use of affirmative action in college admissions on June 23 ...
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Asking More Than Male or Female
Inside Higher Ed - Aug 12. 2010
The Common Application is considering adding voluntary questions about applicants' sexual orientation and gender identity. The application is used by hundreds of colleges and universities -- including many of the most competitive....
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College Rankings
Best Colleges 2011
US News & World Report - Aug 17, 2010
Find the Best School for You Use this advanced search to sift through more than 1,900 colleges and universities....
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Backlash building against college rankings
msnbc.com - Aug 17. 2010
As the annual binge of college rankings crests this week, Ethan Haines isn’t just fed up. He’s fed out. The unemployed law school grad launched a hunger strike Aug. 5 to protest U.S. News & World Report’s ....
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The Rankings, Rejiggered
Inside Higher Ed - Aug 17. 2010
In the realm of college admissions, today is a day to rejoice—or rant. It all depends on your opinion of college rankings (or, perhaps, your college’s place on U.S. News & World Report’s annual list).....
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Look Beyond the Top-Ranked Schools
US News & World Report - Aug 17. 2010
The schools that attract the most attention on the day that U.S.News & World Report unveils its much-anticipated rankings are the ones that command the top spots....
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
Top 10 things colleges look for in applicants
State College News - Aug 13. 2010
MINNEAPOLIS -- While summer winds down many are gearing up for the new school year. And for some families, that means the beginning of the college application process. A new survey sheds light on what students ...
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Narrowing Your College Choices
US News & World Report - Aug 16. 2010
You don't need to be a math whiz to solve this problem: Who has better odds of gaining acceptance at the college that's the best match, the high school senior who applies to 25 schools indiscriminately or the one who applies to a carefully whittled-down list of seven?...
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Strategies for picking a college
San Jose Mercury News - Aug 12. 2010
Q: My son is going to be a senior this year, and we are confused about how to begin the college admissions process. How do we know which schools are right for him, and how many should he apply to...
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Essay
Campus Visits
The College Tour: How Soon Is Too Soon?
Forbes - Aug 12. 2010
All students are unique, but ideally, a student’s self-motivated research about various colleges should begin in the sophomore year of high school....
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Colleges Attract Students With Unique Campus Tours
US News & World Report - Aug 8, 2010
In addition to taking a walking tour of a college campus, why not boat, bike or drive around campus? As colleges try to attract more prospective students and families to their campuses, ...
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Parents
Easing the drama of college send-off
The Charlotte Observer - Aug 17, 2010
Even the savvy parents who managed to get through the entire college admissions process intact have a difficult time on the day of departure. Emotions are raw for everyone, with parents lamenting that their baby is leaving the nest and freshmen ...
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The Long Goodbye -- Taking the Kids to College
Huffington Post - Aug 17, 2010
Are you going to cry, Mom?" my son Matt asked me on the plane ride to California. I honestly didn't know. After all, we were on the family trip we'd spent more time preparing for than any other -- 18 and a half years of planning, to be exact
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Saying Goodbye to Ben
College Solution Blog - Aug 15, 2010
Saturday evening I said goodbye to my son Ben, who officially started his four years at Beloit College. I am grateful that the send-off was better than the one that Scott Bierman ...
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The ABC'S of moving the kids to college
Kansas City Star - Aug 17, 2010
Every director of college dorms has a horror story about freshman move-in day: People pulling up with overpacked rental trucks, overpacked trailers and overpacked rental trucks towing overpacked trailers...
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Disabilities
Scholarships
4 Ways To Win a Merit Scholarship
College Solution Blog - Aug 12, 2010
Here are four tips that David shared on how to make the best case for merit money by making the most of the supplemental essays that many college applications require....
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College Admissions Books
Book Review: Community College Companion
SayCampusLife.com - Aug 17. 2010
Two-year schools, sometimes called junior colleges, technical schools and most commonly community colleges, are an important part of the higher education spectrum with some 1,200 such ..
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Green Campus
Vermont college deemed 'greenest'
Brattleboro Reformer - Aug 17, 2010
POULTNEY (AP) - Vermont's Green Mountain College has been named the greenest school in the country by Sierra magazine. In its annual feature on the "coolest ...
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The Nation’s Greenest Colleges
New York Times - Aug 17, 2010
The One way to measure environmentalism on college campuses is to size up their efforts to cut energy use or to recycle garbage. In rankings released on Monday, the Sierra Club’s Sierra Magazine anoints Green Mountain College in Vermont. ...
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Student Athletes
Getting Your Athlete Into College
State College News - Aug 10. 2010
Athletic ability does not guarantee admission to a college, and more and more public pressure is forcing colleges to re-evaluate their admissions standards ...
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For Profits
For-profit colleges rein in recruiting tactics
The Associated Press - Aug 17, 2010
Two for-profit colleges whose recruiting tactics were singled out in a scathing undercover government investigation are pledging to stop using enrollment targets as a factor in paying admissions representatives ...
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West
Online becomes alternative to regular high school
The Bakersfield Californian - Aug 3, 2010
It's not clear how many local students have turned to online public high schools but web programs have blossomed in California and will continue to, school officials say. ...
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Arizona to change how it evaluates schools
Arizona Republic - Aug 17, 2010
A plan to switch how Arizona schools are evaluated by starting to use familiar letter grades is likely to give many schools report-card shock...
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Bullying
Teens
Depressed Teens Not Shunned
US News & World Report - Aug 17, 2010
Depressed teens skirt the social margins of high school mainly because they choose to form friendships with the relatively few peers who struggle with comparably bleak moods...
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How Teen Sex Affects Education
BusinessWeek - Aug 11, 2010
In their analysis of US national data, the researchers focused on specific measures of education: school attachment; high school GPA; college aspiration...
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