Yeah for Hamilton! I am super impressed that they have quite literally put their money where their mouths are.They join the ranks of need blind.
Six trustees have pledged $500,000 each to the college to help fund the first few years of the initiative. Hamilton College also will begin a fundraiser to raise $40 million [...]

WIth many college deadlines past, we get a glimpse of just how competative it is out there:
11% (vs. this time last year — deadline is 3/1) Temple
“down” Maryland-College park
-0.7% Yale
Whitman (no change)
+1% Bowdoin
+1% U Conn
+2% U of California System (overall)
…..+5.5% UCLA (72,000 –> 76,000 apps!)
+2.3% NYU
+3% George Washington
+3% Illinois Urbana-Champaign
+3% Lafayette
+3% Union
+3% Vassar
+3% Williams
+3% [...]

I agree with Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale,when he explains that “We’ve reversed the equation–that the college is going to make something out of your life, when actually it’s the student who makes something out of college,” he says.He goes on to explain in an interview with the Huffington Post
:
“Any strong college [...]

GamePro offers up a  listing of best colleges to study Video Game Design:

1
University of Southern California, Interactive Media Division

Location: Los Angeles, CA
Degrees offered: Major/Minor
Number of students enrolled: 16,283
Student/Faculty ratio: 9:1
Annual tuition: $38,570
The Interactive Media Division of USC has graduated some pretty big names in the indie gaming scene. Jenova Chen of thatgamecompany (flOw), Matt [...]

What They’re Reading on College Campuses
1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 2 (in previous survey)

3. Nightlight: A Parody by the staff of The Harvard Lampoon 10

4. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 1

5. [...]

According to Unigo:

01
Reed College

02
Wabash College

03
University of Chicago

04
Whitman College

05
Swarthmore College

06
Bennington College

07
Pitzer College

08
Hampshire College

09
Sarah Lawrence College

10
Grinnell College

Let see how they did when you compare it with the data on full-bright scholars?
Top U.S. Producers of Fulbright Students, by Type of Institutions, 2009-10

Research institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Northwestern U.
32
109

U. of Chicago
31
128

Brown U.
29
106

Stanford U.
28
87

U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
28
111

Yale U.
25
92

Columbia [...]

The Fullbright program is the flagship scholarship program of the United States. Today we look at Master’s level institutions

Bachelor’s institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Pomona College
15
58

Smith College
14
36

Pitzer College
12
67

Kenyon College
11
26

Oberlin College
10
24

Swarthmore College
10
42

Vassar College
10
42

Scripps College
9
28

Wellesley College
9
36

New College of Florida
8
22

Barnard College
7
16

Grinnell College
7
31

Kalamazoo College
7
15

Bowdoin College
6
20

Occidental College
6
20

U. of Richmond
6
30

Wheaton College (Mass.)
6
14

Williams College
6
35

Amherst College
5
35

Denison U.
5
22

Trinity College (Conn.)
5
16

Agnes Scott College
4
7

Claremont McKenna College
4
21

College of [...]

From The Economist:

Based on the study from OECD. Learn more:

Times–they are a changin’–or so it goes in financial aid for international students. Up until recently, things had looked more positive with 8 colleges offering need-blind for international students:

MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts
Harvard University in Massachusetts
Princeton University in New Jersey
Yale University in Connecticut
Williams College in Massachusetts
Middlebury College in Vermont
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire
Amherst [...]

The Fullbright program is the flagship scholarship program of the United States.
Fostering leadership, learning and empathy between cultures was and remains the purpose of the international scholarship program.” – Senator J. William Fulbright
Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes than those of any other academic program–for this reason it can be considered an indicator of the [...]