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There are many addmission plans and deadlines. The most known of these is Early decision, which is a binding agreement–if you apply under this program and are admitted, you have agreed to go and withdraw any and all other applications. Early decision deadlines are usually November first and promise to tell you by December 15, [...]

Jolly good show, what! If you are planning on going to the UK to study higher education, you need to be aware of a few things:
1) It is a REALLY good idea to have a specific major in mind. Two resources to help you target:

Coursefinder
the Stamford test from UCAS.

2) You need to use UCAS site [...]

Beloit College has long published what it calls the mindset list, a series of bullets that characterize the incoming freshman class. Here are afew highlights from this year’s:
The Mindset for the Class of 2011

What Berlin wall?
They never “rolled down” a car window.
They have grown up with bottled water.
Nelson Mandela has always been free and [...]

I dug up some stats from the back pages of USNews. Interesting look.

School
Early-decision
and/or
early-action
acceptance
rate
Non-early
acceptance
rate
Difference in
acceptance
rate
Freshman enrolled
through
early plans
Type of plan
(early-decision
and/or early-action)

Brandeis University (MA)
63%
35%
28%
22%
ED

Johns Hopkins University (MD)
51%
25%
26%
39%
ED

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
79%
53%
26%
38%
EA

George Washington University (DC)
60%
36%
24%
38%
ED

University of Miami (FL)
54%
32%
21%
58%
EA, ED

University of Rhode Island
82%
62%
20%
60%
EA

Syracuse University (NY)
71%
51%
20%
17%
ED

Princeton University (NJ)
27%
8%
19%
49%
ED

Columbia University (NY)
26%
10%
16%
N/A
ED

George Fox University (OR)
98%
82%
16%
33%
EA

University of Chicago
49%
34%
15%
46%
EA

College of William and Mary [...]

This table shows the breakdown on female versus male participation in A levels:

Does it sound stereotypical that Computing and physics dominate the males interest? Or that languages and creative endeavors seem to capture the women’s imagination?
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Oh boy. I can hardly contain my excitement (This sounds best read with a deadpan Steven Wright voice). Shanghai’s Jiaotong University has revealed their fifth annual Ranking of World Universities. Guess who topped:

Shanghai best blog, The Shanghaiist has some excellent takes on it. My own advice:
Take a close look at their criteria…then take a look [...]

CNET carried an article a few weeks ago in which they chart the death of email–at least around teen agers. This article dovetails nicely with the discussion we had at OACAC and ECIS (click to see supporting documents). Here is the article:

Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: July 18, [...]