All I can say is Duuuh!:
Publishing in the July issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, the researchers surveyed 3,341 undergraduates at a large Midwestern public university and found “significant relationships between the presence and timing of Friday classes and Thursday drinking,” lead author Phillip K. Wood, professor of quantitative psychology at the [...]

Got an ipod (or some other MP3 player)…Kaplan now has SAT prep for your ipod:
“Learning styles have changed a lot since Stanley Kaplan founded Kaplan in 1938,” said Kristen Campbell, the national director of SAT and ACT programs for Kaplan. “Students take their iPods with them all the time, whether they’re in a car driving [...]

so recalls one of the greatest journalists in a recent Harvard Alumni magazine article chronicling famous rejections. Seems that it is hard to tell if it is better to get into Harvard or get denied. On the list for the latter are:

Gazillionaire Warren Buffett
Media Magnet Ted Turner
Founder of Rolling Stones Magazine
Winner of a Nobel Prize
Winner [...]

The following are real answers from real counselors to a real question:
“I want a list of good colleges.”
This question drives us nuts since the good is obviouly a subjective question and meausres of quality hard to quanitify and measure. Robert Prisig drove himself crazy trying to understand quality:
Quality . . . you know what [...]

China has a massive postsecondary education system. It also is the origiantor of the entrance exam…although their presentincarnation is only 30 years old. This year’s essay portion reflects changes ongoing in China:
“The
topic in Fujian this year is Seasons. It’s pretty vague. We can write
in any style we choose, an argument, an essay, a poem,” said [...]

Getting
Into College, Strumming His Own Tune

Jane Therese for The
New York Times

Kevin Robinson, 18, a high school senior in Pennsylvania, will attend George Washington University in the fall.

By SAMUEL
G. FREEDMAN
Published: June 6,
2007

DOYLESTOWN, Pa.
Attention, all helicopter parents
and pressure-cooker children. I mean the ones who’ve been sucked into the vortex
of college admissions anxiety. I mean the ones who [...]

My nephew is taking a GAP year. He left yesterday about a tall ship heading to Hawaii! Life is rough. See some photos at FLICKR.

S.A.L.T.S. Sail and Life Training Society is a non-profit organization
that helps young people (ages 13-25) develop life skills through sail
training, and builds and restores traditional wooden ships. S.A.L.T.S.
operates two tall ships [...]

Parents often worry about kids taking a year off between high school and college. My parents worried when I announced that I was moving to Australia for a year. They feared I would never go to university (I did) nor return home (I did, at least for a time before itchy feet got me moving). [...]