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This week comes the news that we were NOT hoping for: Applications are up. Up a lot. More people applying, same number of spaces. Some quick takes:

Harvard, a 19 percent
increase over last year.
University of Chicago (18 percent), with an amazing increase in early admissions applicants of 46 percent
Amherst
College (17 percent),
Northwestern University (14 percent),
Dartmouth (10 percent)
Cornell [...]

In the past year, The International Counselor had 438,000 hits. At present usage, we should hit half a million by March…Good to have goal.
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Are you in the book yet? Your students are and in a big way. Many campuses in Georgia found Facebook cutoff:
“I don’t know that college students could have lasted a night without Facebook,” said Georgia Tech spokeswoman Lisa Grovenstein.
It turns out some sort of technical dohickie thingamabob got all out of whack and caused a [...]

Today, 23 new members (8 of which are public institutions) joined the Common Application membership association for next year. This brings the total membership to 339 (25 of which are public institutions) for the 2008-2009 academic year. Our new members (with publics identified by asterix):
• Canisius College (NY)
• Culver-Stockton College [...]

Higher education is abuzz with the announcement by University of Auckland that they will no longer entertain open enrollment at undergraduate programs. Students will now compete for enrollment into specific programs. Some see this move as positive: This will allow university to distinguish themselves. Others say it smacks of elitism and blame the government on [...]

Several people have asked what the heck I did with this site. Why I changed the look and started talking about psychology…ibpsychology.com is one of my sister sites. It focuses on the wonderful world of psychology especially as it relates to the International Baccalaureate (although I am not active right now so it has not [...]

New york times has a great series on colleges that require job placement as part of the experience.
Job Requirement - New York Times
SCHOOL-supported stints in the workplace have become as familiar a part of the undergraduate world as bleary-eyed cramming for finals. While on most campuses such spells are optional, more than 125 institutions require [...]

I meant to write about this before heading off to Vietnam for holidays, but otehr duties called. So here are a few:
Yale is reporting an increase of 36 per cent for students applying early decision.
“The quantity and quality of the applications this year was extraordinary and unprecedented,” said Jeff Brenzel. Yale Daily News - Early [...]