How many students are being wait-listed these days? According to “Colleges Leave Applicants Waiting,” an article by Bonnie Miller Rubin in The Chicago Tribune, the number of colleges who are wait-listing students is on the rise.
Jerked Around: More and More American College Applicants Get Wait Listed
May 08, 2012
How to Involve Your Parents in Your College Search...
May 01, 2012
So you see, dealing with your parents at this time of transition is really a two-way street. Your parents might drive you a little crazy. You might drive them a little crazy too. But with some healthy give and take, you will all get through it together.
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Busted Myth of the Week: It's an Equal Playing Field for Men and Women in American Higher Education Today
April 26, 2012
It’s an open secret in American higher education. If colleges did not consider the gender of applicants – if they only admitted men and women who had achieved the very highest grades and standardized test scores – some of those schools would end up with incoming classes that were comprised of about 80% women.
SAT Creators Will Depend on Tiny Little Photos to End Cheating on the Test
April 02, 2012
A 19-year-old man named Sam Eshaghoff, who graduated from Great Neck North High School on Long Island, took the SAT as many as 16 times fraudulently, for other students. He consistently scored in the top 97th percentile on the test.
Download Your Free Copy of Getting into College Made Easy
March 06, 2012
When you stop to think about it, you begin to realize just how complicated it has become to apply to college in the traditional way. You get hundreds of college brochures in the mail . . . you visit dozens of college websites . . . you take courses to learn how to take the SAT and ACT . . . you pester your teachers and guidance counselor for letters of recommendation. . .
Colleges Falsify Data to Boost their Ratings in U.S. News? Call Us Not Surprised
February 04, 2012
The methodology that U.S. News has developed to collect data is deeply flawed, and has been since the magazine starting compiling its college rankings. The problem is that the data that U.S. News uses to rank colleges is submitted by the colleges themselves.
Getting into College Made Easy: Handling College Alumni Interviews
January 26, 2012
If you’re applying to a college that offers you a chance to have an interview with an alumnus or alumna who attended the school, should you schedule one? The answer is, yes. Alumni interviews can only improve your chances of getting into a college. They represent an opportunity that is all upside, with no downside.
Barbarians at the Gates! More Foreign and Public School Students (Gasp) Are Using Early Admission to Get Into Elite Colleges
January 24, 2012
As recently as 2005, most of the students who applied early admission to Ivy League and other top-tier American colleges were from prestigious prep schools and top public high schools. Now that has changed. According to “As a Broader Group Seeks Early Admission, Rejections Rise in the East,” a new article in The New York Times by Richard Pérez-Peña and Jenny Anderson, the early admissions process has become overrun by applicants from public and foreign high schools.
Getting into College Made Easy: How to Find the College that Fits You Best
January 19, 2012
Lots of considerations come into play when you’re picking a college. You want a college that you can afford, a college that offers the program of study that you are looking for, and a college that has a good track record of placing graduates in jobs. But there is another critical factor too. It is known as “fit.” It means that you want a college where you feel at home.
Getting Into College Made Easy: Four Critical Questions to Ask
January 12, 2012
Going to the wrong college can be more than disappointing. I can cost you a fortune too. You can find some comments that prove that point from StudentsReview.com, a website where students review hundreds of American colleges.
