You got to love the folks at the collegeboard. Apparently, the writing scores may not be as strong as they were say last year. Surprise, they changed the test: “This is because, for the first time since the introduction of the new SAT, the 2006 PSAT/NMSQT writing skills section is based on [...]

It has gotta be about a week since a college list has come out…so with no further ado: PC Magazine and The Princeton Review’s “most wired college list:

Villanova
MIT
Indiana University

Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania
Creighton University in Nebraska,
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Michigan Technological University,
University of Southern California,
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut and
the [...]

This came in my inbox today and accurately summarizes what many of us the business not only believe, but know. There is no best. There are many bests. Schools are as indivualized as the learners out there. Selectivity may be an indicator of quality, but it might also be a factor of location or price [...]

For the past generation there has been a growing involvement in parents in their children’s college education. This goes beyond accompanying kids on college visits. This goes beyond parent orientation. Parents calling unversity professors to check in on their kids progess. Many college types decry this sort of overinvolvement. Of course, colleges may actually be [...]

A well known secret in college admissions is that “development cases” get special consideration. In plain English if you or your parents are stinking rich, famous or both, your application gets looked at in very different ways. In addition, Children of Alumni have always been reviewed with a special eye as legacies tend to garner [...]

Question: A student of mine just received an invitation to participate in the
National Young Leader’s State Conference from an address in Washington
DC.  The invitation includes a “tuition fee of $1300.00″ to attend a 4
day conference.
Love the program, hate the marketing. I think it is shameless–the invitation makes it sounds like [...]