In most educational systems around the world, grade 11 is not simply a step, but a quantum leap. The Wall street journal provides an insightful look at grade 11 in a US high school. Is grade 11 really high school’s worst year?
High School’s Worst Year? - WSJ.com
Almost two-thirds of middle- and upper-middle-income high [...]

Great story at the Wall Street Journal.

One of the most respected journalists has jumped on the net…and is reporting on College admissions.
n this Tuesday’s episode, “Dan Rather Reports” goes inside the process of college admissions. The program will bring you a seldom-seen look into an admissions committee meeting and Rather speaks with university presidents, guidance counselors, and students from two [...]

Two more big names joined the ranks of SAT optional schools this past month:
Smith College, the venerable woman’s college in Boston and
Wake Forest University in North Carolina
Wake simply stated that they had found that the SAT SAT “is not a great predictor of college success.”
See the complete list at Fairtest–over 750 colleges who are SAT [...]

Bebo has launched a new reality TV series on the net following a group of young people on a GAP year experience. The participants are Canadian Andre Tardiff (24), New Zealander Lewis Whaitiri (22), American Cara Cioni (24), Roxanne Hughes-Monteiro (18) from Ireland, Dave Brett from the UK (19) and Amy O’Connor from Australia (23), [...]

As you can see, my posting has been light, partly because that is the time of year, partly because I have a done of things going on at my day job, and partly because I decided to revamp my blog, which means learning to hack a script, which I have not been totally successful in [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on growing action of the waitlists:

The University of Chicago–80
Dartmouth–20 to 25
Brown–70
Williams College — 45 and 50
Swarthmore College–
Johns Hopkins University–80
Princeton University — 78
HarvardCollege– 55 and 65
CornellUniversity– 94

Print Story: Sleepy brain prone to sudden shutdowns study on Yahoo! News
Being deprived of sleep even for one night makes the brain unstable and prone to sudden shutdowns akin to a power failure — brief lapses that hover between sleep and wakefulness, researchers said on Tuesday.
“It’s as though it is both asleep and [...]

Advice from first and second year students for high school students.
Make sure: You save your syllabus for EACH class. That is your Bible. In Uni you are not reminded every class period of assignments due.
You DO NOT procrastinate. Papers and assignments snowball at an overwhelming rate.
You get make sure your professors know you. Make [...]