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College Big Picture
A Truly Devastating Graph on State Higher Education Spending
The Atlantic - Mar 20, 2013
Are you a fan of public higher education? Yes? Then prepare to be upset. Outraged even. The chart below from the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities estimates how much each of the 50 states has slashed per-student funding .....
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
How to make the most of the confusing college fair
Charlotte Observer - Mar 19, 2013
Here’s what a parent shared with me about his recent college fair experience, “I walked in and was overwhelmed, while I was there I got lost and when I left I was confused.”.....
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College Admissions: The Myth of Higher Selectivity
TIME - Mar 20, 2013
One of the most persistent concerns I hear from parents is that it’s harder than ever for their children to get into selective colleges. They cite ever dropping acceptance rates among top schools and the rapidly increasing numbers of applications that the most selective colleges receive year over year as evidence...
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College Admissions in the Age of the MOOCs
Huffington Post - Mar 19, 2013
Welcome to the age of the MOOCs. The acronym might sound like a character out of Star Wars, but MOOCs -- "massive open online courses" -- are real....
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Waiting & Deciding/Rejection
On College: Waitlisted? The admissions waiting game continues
San Jose Mercury News - Mar 18, 2013
I look forward to this time of year every year -- the time when college decisions are released. It marks years of hard work. It also brings with it hope for the future and a new beginning. And while we celebrate acceptances and grieve denials,...
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High School Seniors Enter Homestretch of College Process
Ed Week - Mar 18, 2013
The last of the college-acceptance letters (or, more likely, emails) are arriving this month, and high school seniors around the country are weighing their options. The offers trickled in, but the higher education community has agreed on a common deadline for committing: May 1. That gives most students a month or more to make the big decision....
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The Realities of a College Wait List
The College Solution Blog - Mar 20, 2013
At a party on Friday night, a former colleague of my husband’s mentioned that he was stunned that his son’s friend didn’t get into Stanford University. ...
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What To Do If You Are Deferred
LA College Admissions Examiner - Mar 15, 2013
We know that application numbers this season are way up. It’s quite possible that you are a qualified student who has been deferred from your first choice college. A deferral means that you are qualified and that the admission officers will take another look at your application file during their regular admission ...
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Campus Visits
How to Plan a College Visit Road Trip Over Spring Break
Her Campus - Mar 19, 2013
Spring break is right around the corner and pre-collegiettes from all across the country are beginning to plan their long-awaited college visits. It is a prime time for visiting colleges and checking out which schools pique your interest. ....
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Essays
College Admissions: Big Changes For The Common App
GoLocalProv - Mar 19, 2013
Next year’s college applicants will face a new array of questions when they attack college applications. Most notably, the Common App, used by roughly 500 colleges and universities, has announced completely new essay topics for 2013-2014. .....
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Choosing Admissions Essay Topics & Writing Tips
LA College Admissions Examiner - Mar 15, 2013
Choosing your college admissions essay topic can be more difficult than writing the actual essay. After all, you have lots of ideas and how do you select what is right? Once you have decided on your topics, your writing should come easily. College applications will have prompts for you to follow...
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Counselors
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Post - Mar 21, 2013
Helping Parents Understand Financial Aid Offers
Last week, we talked about the challenge of working with a student when a college has turned them down. This can be a difficult conversation to have, to be sure…... More
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Cutting college costs: Will financial aid consultants help you find a deal?
The State - Mar 18, 2013
Any parent with a college-bound kid knows that aside from test scores and debate team accomplishments, the biggest factor is money. OK, if your kid is a Gates or a Buffett, maybe not. Otherwise, the task of navigating tuition, scholarships and loans hangs heavy over the entire college process...
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FinAid/Scholarship/Paying
Parents
Jobs, Value and Affirmative Action: A Survey of Parents About College
Inside Higher Ed - Mar 20, 2013
But the first Inside Higher Ed poll of parents of pre-college students suggests that the truer statement today might be "study hard and you can get into the college we can afford," or perhaps "study hard, and we'll help you get into a college that can find you a job."...
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Career Training
O.C. high schools boost focus on career training
Orange County Register - Mar 15, 2013
For students such as Ramirez, high schools are no longer about choosing between a purely academic college-prep track and a vocational path such as auto shop that prepares them to enter the workforce after graduation...
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Midwest
Commission calls for closing college ‘achievement gap’
Mt. Vernon Register-News - Mar 14, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Commission on Higher Education wants the state’s colleges and universities to be more aggressive in closing the graduation “achievement gap” for Hispanic and black students, who are dropping out of college at a significantly higher rate than white students..
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Michigan may drop foreign language rule for schools
The Detroit News - Mar 15, 2013
Livonia --Bailey Ellul is only 6 years old, but she understands the question and knows the answer. "Nikkeru," she says in Japanese when her teacher holds up a picture of a nickel and asks in the same language, "What is this?"..
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Higher education cuts loom amid Kansas tax changes
Reuters - Mar 19, 2013
TOPEKA Kansas colleges and universities could lose millions in state funding as lawmakers struggle to balance state spending with tax cuts. House and Senate budgets look to chop $25 million to $30 million from the state’s six major universities and its technical and community colleges...
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Teen Dating Violence
Steubenville rape trial: Where were 'courageous bystanders'?
The Christian Science Monitor - Mar 13, 2013
The trial that started Wednesday in Steubenville, Ohio, has brought to light the disturbing regularity of dating and sexual violence among teenagers and how peers often stand idly by – or, in some cases, even post videos to Facebook.....
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