My school justed started a new film course this. The sponsor teacher, author of the Carrot Revolution, decided to create the Shanghai Student Film Festival, a short film festival. One of the videos that caught my college counseling eye, was the satirical look at the college admission process.

Little did they know how close the may [...]

Renowned for their engineering, many overseas students do not realise that Carnagie Mellon University offers a really dynamic  visual and performing arts program. Their YouTube chanel  highlights this  in what they call “Carnegie Mellon is … RoboU. DramaU. EngineerU. BusinessU. HumanitiesU. ScienceU. PolicyU. DesignU. PsychU. EnviroU.” This video, entitled keep on auditioning showcases robotics and [...]

Oh please do not be this type of parent:
During Nate’s final year of high school, I impersonated him online,
filling out and submitting 11 versions of the Common Application for
undergraduate admission. The guidance counselor at his private school
told parents such “clerical” support was expected. It became my
full-time job. I left my son in San Francisco. - [...]

Those who have read this blog, know I am a big fan of knowing your strengths. Gallup offers a great tool called Strengthsfinder. You can learn more on a screencast I did last year. The screencast
is an automated powerpoint with my voice over. Just click play, it will
load and automatically play. The presentation is [...]

Need-blind admission is a term in the U.S. denoting a college admission policy in which the admitting institution claims not to consider an applicant’s financial situation when deciding admission.
Source: Collegebound News
WHO IS NEED-BLIND
IN ADMISSIONS?
Aquinas C., Augustana C., Babson C., Baldwin-Wallace
[...]

One of the counselors on the NACAC listserve compiled a great list of  things parents SHOULD NOT do in college visits  or interviews.

1.     
Don’t use the royal “we.”
a.      
Off the top of my head, my personal favorite no-no is when parents say “We want
to attend your university next year” or other similar comments.  (I’m
particularly fond of [...]

Courtesy of Yahoo.
1. Nursing Informatics:
Healthcare
may be the fastest growing industry, but it also suffers from a
horrendous lack of computerization. While your fast food order is now
entirely automated, most hospitals still do their record-keeping on
paper. That’s where nursing informatics professionals come in. Nearly
100,000 Americans die each year from preventable medical errors, which
digital record-keeping could help to [...]

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Renowned as one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the US, Skidmore has been blogging since August 2007, written by Nate, one of the admission officers. They have 7 students blogs “written by students about life at  Skidmore will provide a different
perspective on the Skidmore experience than you’ll get from Admissions
publications or guidebooks. We’ve [...]

Top universities in the arts & humanities

Rank
School Name
Country
Arts Score

1
HARVARD University
United States
100.0

2
University of California, BERKELEY
United States
96.5

3
University of OXFORD
United Kingdom
94.4

4
University of CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom
92.3

5
YALE University
United States
84.3

6
COLUMBIA University
United States
83.3

7
PRINCETON University
United States
80.1

8
University of TORONTO
Canada
79.5

9
University of CHICAGO
United States
77.6

10
AUSTRALIAN National University
Australia
75.9

11
STANFORD University
United States
74.7

12
MCGILL University
Canada
71.3

13
University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U…
United States
68.4

14
University of BRITISH COLUMBIA
Canada
67.2

15
The University of SYDNEY
Australia
66.6

16
CORNELL University
United States
64.4

17
University of MELBOURNE
Australia
63.9

18
PEKING University
China
61.2

19
University of [...]