The Princeton review begins the ranking season with their various rankings of differet aspects of college life. Word of warning: They do not seem to give any real methodology beyond this statement:
We surveyed over 122,000 students and collected tons of information to help you find the best college for you – including 62 rankings lists.
One [...]

The New York Times has a sensational story about the growth of private counselors and their mind boggling fees they are charging.
A reputable, experienced counselor might, for a few hundred dollars, help a student compile a list of prospective colleges, or brainstorm topics for an essay. But others demand tens of thousands of dollars to [...]

Continuing in our series on Field guides to different majors (see Field Guide to Business here and Communications here), this week we have the Field Guide to Psychology. Psychology has proven to be one of the most popular majors at colleges everywhere.
What is the study?
• Wikipedia does a nice break down of the field and the CollegeBoard offers [...]

Summmmmmmmer! You should relax.
But if your parents are one you (or you’re on yourself) to get ready for the SAT, know you do not have to pay for SAT prep.

Check out www.number2.com This is the granddaddy of all free SAT prep sites. About 25 colleagues recommended this one, so does U of CA [...]

Over at MASHABLE,  Vadim Lavrusik has a great article exploring how universities are using social netwrking:
Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to engage the community directly. In many cases, social media tools like Facebook Pages have given universities [...]

Olin college is a great new college that came to fame for offerin project based learning in Engineering and full ride scholarships for all students. Now comes news, that they need to cut back:
In order to maintain academic quality and a sustainable financial model in the face of the economic downturn, Franklin W. Olin College [...]

A very interesting article from the Chronicle dicusses the 10 years since the Bolgna accord has come into effect:
In June 1999, the education ministers of 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration, pledging to work toward the creation of a European Higher Education Area. The landmark declaration was short on specifics, but its aims included [...]

Lots of fascinating little tidbits floating around the post-Gaokao wolrd of Chinese admissions:
Top Sichuan Scorer in Gaokoa will not get to go to Peking university because his father faked his ethnicity.
HKU ask interviewees about the Green Dam and Michale Jackson to solicate original thinking.
A girl is denied college admission because her father signed a petition. [...]

Not so much ripoffs of Facebook, but rather Marketeers posing as “official” or even not official university groups for the class of 2012, 13, 14 etc.
The Toronto Star overviews the growing problem.