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College Big Picture
College Roulette: Ask for Financial Aid, or Not?
CNBC - Mar 4, 2013
The decision by Grinnell College to continue — for now — to admit students regardless of their ability to pay raises a question that more and more parents are asking: how much does your financial situation matter in getting your children into college?....
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Public college tuition spiked 8.3% last year
CNN - Mar 6, 2013
Tuition at public colleges and universities spiked to record levels last year, according to a new report. Average tuition costs - the amount students paid in tuition and fees after state and institutional aid was taken into account -- rose by 8.3%...
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
March College Checklist for Juniors
New York Times - The Choice - Feb 14, 2013
This is the part of your college search that does not have a lot of specific deadlines. It does, however, have a lot of things you need to do to stay on track and set yourself up for the best experience. ....
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A zen guide for choosing college
TBO.com - Mar 3, 2013
This is the part of your college search that does not have a lot of specific deadlines. It does, however, have a lot of things you need to do to stay on track and set yourself up for the best experience. ....
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Waiting & Deciding
5 Ways To Survive College Decision Season
GoLocalProv - Mar 4, 2013
March decision season is about to commence for seniors. Each day, students will stalk the mailman, check their in-boxes a dozen times and log into admissions portals hoping for answers. The result is stress, drama and in some cases, jealousy....
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March College Checklist for Seniors
New York Time - The Choice - Mar 1, 2013
This is the month you’ve been waiting for. Most admission decisions will be released by the end of March, leaving all of April for you to make your choice....
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Things To Do & Ask Once Admitted to College
LA College Admissions Examiner - Mar 4, 2013
Many of you may have conducted campus visits prior to being accepted and may have participated in campus tours and spent some time on campus. Now that you are accepted students you may choose to visit again or for the first time before making your decision. Once accepted....
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Campus Visits/Interview
Making the most of your campus visits
Charlotte Observer - Mar 5, 2013
Last week I may have guilted a few people into changing their vacation plans. They will now be visiting college campuses over spring break instead of basking on the beach. I’m okay with that!....
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Top 10 nonacademic reasons why parents and students visit colleges: Part 1
Long Island College Prep Examiner - Mar 5, 2013
Counselors and colleges urge prospective students to schedule college visits as part of college prep to help them form a college list. Although both students and parents want to find the best educational fit, there are key nonacademic factors that can drop a college off the list.....
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SATs & ACTs
Getting In Without the SAT
New York Time - The Choice - Mar 1, 2013
For all the gripes some people have with the SAT and ACT as gauges of aptitude, the tests are certainly standardizing forces in one regard: taking them has become a shared moment of anxiety — a rite of passage, in its way — for students wishing to go to a United States college or university....
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Superscoring the ACT
The College Solution Blog - Mar 1, 2013
If your child plans to take the ACT test, you should know about ACT superscoring. To understand what superscoring is, here’s some background:...
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SAT Is Getting a Redesign
New York Time - The Choice - Feb 28, 2013
The College Board is planning to redesign the SAT, less than a decade since its last revision, which introduced a writing section, eliminated analogies and raised the value of a perfect score......
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More views on College Board’s SAT rewrite
Washington Post - Feb 28, 2013
Two rival college admissions tests have almost evenly split the national market. In the fall, my colleague Valerie Strauss of The Answer Sheet reported that the ACT had nosed past the long-dominant SAT for the first time in the number of test-takers.....
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Why the Instructions are the Most Important Part of an SAT Subject Test
VOA - Feb 28, 2013
After spending months preparing for the SAT and the TOEFL, I found preparing for the SAT Subject Tests much easier. I was already, you might say, prepared for preparing for tests. Still, there was something that I was not prepared for – waiting for two whole months to receive my scores....
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Counselors
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Post - Mar 7, 2013
The Newsletter you Need to Send to your Juniors, Now
School counselors across the land have been caught off guard with a handful of colleges sending some admissions decisions ... More
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FinAid
 | How to optimize college aid applications [Video]
MNN - Mar 6, 2013
Do you have a child heading off to college in the fall? If so, this video from Forbes’ William Baldwin is an absolute must-watch. Baldwin discusses how you, as a parent, can optimize your child’s college aid applications...
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Sequestration complicates college aid notices
USA Today - Mar 6, 2013
Colleges play a guessing game every spring when they tell prospective students how much financial aid is available to them. So the federal spending cuts that began with last Friday's sequestration are complicating...
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Fixing Financial Aid
The Chronicle of Higher Ed - Mar 3, 2013
In 1972, Clark Kerr was, once again, helping shape the future of American higher education. He was 61 years old, and his greatest works lay behind him. The California Master Plan for Higher Education, which he helped broker in 1960, would become the model for organizing public colleges and universities...
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Parents
Home Equity to Finance Son's College Cost?
Fox Business - Mar 4, 2013
Dear Paul, Using the equity in your home to pay for your child's college expenses can make financial sense. In most cases, the mortgage interest will be tax deductible. Given today's low interest rates, that should cost substantially less than the rate charged for student loans.
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Vocational Education
The high-tech return of high school shop class
CNN - Feb 28, 2013
But long gone are the days of shop class, or even "vocational training," said Stephen DeWitt, the senior director of public policy for the Association for Career and Technical Education.....
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South
Did Education Reform Fail in Texas?
Washington Monthly - Mar 5, 2013
Texas was in many ways the flagship state for school reform. It’s the first state that began to institute serious sanctions against low student and teacher performance and one of the first to enthusiastically make use standardized tests as the major indicator for school success.. ...
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Bullying
When bullying goes high-tech
CNN.com - Feb 27, 2013
(CNN) -- Brandon Turley didn't have friends in sixth grade. He would often eat alone at lunch, having recently switched to his school without knowing anyone....
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Ten Things You Missed at the Harvard Forum on Bullying
Boston Magazine - Mar 6, 2013
On Monday evening Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, spoke to a packed auditorium at the Harvard School of Education. Here’s what you missed:....
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