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The Wall Street Journal is running a series featuring recent college gradautes reflecting on their recent four years and life after university. Some entered bound a determined to follow liberal passions only to give into the job making machine:
Four years and one $160,000 piece of paper later, I’ve gravitated away from that “pragmatism be damned” [...]
Virginia Tuition is going up
Sadly…but not surprisingly. Various universities are raising tuition ten percent of more:
U-Va. tuition has just been announced. Tuition and fees for in-state undergraduates will rise $956 to $10,628. Non-resident tuition and fees will increase by $1,902 to $33,574.
Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond today announced a whopper of a tuition increase — a reflection, school leaders said, of [...]
Good SAT = Good Egg
Quite Literally, according to the Boston Globe, which ran astoy about research into Personal Adds seeking Women’s eggs for fertilization:
The Harvard Crimson was one of three college newspapers that ran an identical classified ad seeking a woman who fit a narrow profile: younger than 29 with a GPA over 3.5 and an SAT score over [...]
The International Counselor LOVES Hamilton
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 [...]
From The Economist:
Based on the study from OECD. Learn more:
Need not-so-blind for international students
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 [...]
numbers round up–february 3
From College Confidential:
Brown +20%
U of California System +2%
Cal State System +50%
Chicago +42%
U Conn +1%
Connecticut College +10%
Cornell +5%
Dartmouth +4%
Delaware +7%
DePauw +18%
Drexel +19%
Duke +11%
George Washington +3%
Harvard +5%
Hawaii-Manoa +25%
Illinois Urbana-Champaign +3%
Hopkins +13%
Loyola (MD) +30%
UMBC +5%
Maryland-College park “down”
Middlebury +15%
University of Minnesota Twin Cities +12%
MIT +5%
Northwestern +9%
Penn State +4%
Penn +17%
Princeton +19%
Richmond +9%
Rutgers +5%
Stanford +5%
Swarthmore +8%
Temple -11% (vs. this time last [...]
What does the economic downturn really mean to international students?
Good question.
Ultimately, colleges have seats to fill. They want students, but which type of students do they want? Will the diversity reign in your favor? But what if you need money? The Washington Post points out that many colleges have changed polices for US students when it comes to need blind admissions:
Tufts University’s experience offers [...]
Dramatic increase of tuition coming to the University of California
Times are tough all over:
The UC Board of Regents, meeting at UCLA, approved a two-phase increase that will boost the average undergraduate fee $2,500 by next fall. That would bring the average annual cost to about $10,300 — a threefold increase in a decade.
This represent a 32% increase! It is unclear if out of state students [...]
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