Today in our session on Best fit, I mentioned some great reads for counselors that influenced my thinking in how students make decisions.
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Today in our session on Best fit, I mentioned some great reads for counselors that influenced my thinking in how students make decisions.
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Eric Fruda from University of Pennsylvania has been answering questions at the Choice Blog at the New York Times.
On lousy grades in freshman year:
The best way to counter any potential negative impact of a rough start in freshman grades is to continue on the upward trend exhibited since that time. I believe students can rebound from [...]
The New York Times has a feature on College admission blogging focusing on the mighty MIT.
Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in official [...]
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Kaplan/newsweek have released their annual addition. One article particularly worth paying attention to is advice from Smitty:
What advice do you have for an average student who wants to go away but has no idea what to study?
Don’t go to college next year. Instead, take a “gap year” to work, do community service or dabble in [...]
Over at MASHABLE, Vadim Lavrusik has a great article exploring how universities are using social netwrking:
Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly. In many cases, social media tools like Facebook Pages have given universities [...]
Every June, Cluster maps resets their service to ZERO. SO my new map is very limied and makes me sad:
I like the red dots. It reminds me of all the people out there looking for college information. But the old one really rocked:
and from a year ago:
and two years ago:
I am with a group of students on a Habitat for Humanity Building trip in Zambia. No electricty let alone internet. How will I survive?
Our team is also helping raise money for a school for Aids orphans in Malawi. Feel free to contribute or spread the word:
Every year I am asked who has a good summer program in film or leadership or art or language or…well you get the idea. Years ago I put together a series of webpages to make it easy to find these programs. Honestly, I find Peteron’s summer directory database cumbersome and awkard to use. I have [...]
and join over 24,000 foreign students. Students from abroad numbered 24,000 or 12% more than in [+]
Today I gave a workshop on using personality testing in the college search process. The [+]
Today in our session on Best fit, I mentioned some great reads for counselors that [+]
While many students consider taking a year abroad in their junior year, a growing number [+]
The Answer sheet featuresa guest post today from Josh Johnson, a veteran campus tour guide. [+]
Much has been written and discussed about student's online pressence since I first conducted a [+]
Many parents fret about their kids musical or artistic obsessions, complaining that they cannot possible [+]
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