Nicole Verardi at NACAC posts a provocative article on MySpace and other such sharing sites as they relate to college admissions. While college admission officers admit that they have little time or inclination to track down applicant blogs, she does cite on case where what was written in a blog was held against an applicant. [...]

Impact Lab has posted top ten lists from various sources including:

USNews for US colleges
McCleans for Canadian Universities
The Sunday Times University Guide for the UK
netbig.com for China
The Times Higher Education Supplement for the World
The Times Higher Education Supplement for outside North America and Europe

Their stated intention is:    Most people choose a college only once in their [...]

I stumbled onto an article by Emma Rankin of Centre college. In it she articulates key questions a student should ask as they decide between colleges:
Key questions include:

How will the career center help me prepare for internships and future job
opportunities?

What is the acceptance rate for graduates who go on to graduate, medical and
law schools?

What tutoring [...]

I stumbled onto an article by of Centre college. In it she articulates key questions a student should ask as they decide between colleges:
Key questions include:

How will the career center help me prepare for internships and future job
opportunities?

What is the acceptance rate for graduates who go on to graduate, medical and
law schools?

What tutoring is available?

Will [...]

“And I thought getting in was the hard part,” commented one of the seniors as he has a rather tough choice to make between five excellent offers. As one did not actually admit him to his first choice major and told him he would have to start June 12 (YIKES!), he ruled out that. [...]

Are we getting desperate?
Read the whole story that extrapolates a study from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University that found “Teenagers who eat with their families at least five times a week are more likely to get better grades in school and much less likely to have substance-abuse problem.”
Listen, share [...]

The Journal of Higher Education looks at the hype of admission selectivitity. Although the hype is certainly true it does not change the fact that selectivity rates at many favorites of the international students have simpley gone up. More kids applying with no more seats will equate to fewer kids getting in. The Journal also [...]

The Newspapers are ripe with stories about how oversubscribed colleges and universities were this year. Look at some examples:
For the 2005-06 school year, Sarah Lawrence received 2,722 applications, second only to the 2,776 applications received in 2003.
Brown University saw a record 18,313 applications this year, up 8 percent from last year’s 16,907. Only 13.8 [...]