What They’re Reading on College Campuses
1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 2 (in previous survey)

3. Nightlight: A Parody by the staff of The Harvard Lampoon 10

4. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown 1

5. [...]

According to Unigo:

01
Reed College

02
Wabash College

03
University of Chicago

04
Whitman College

05
Swarthmore College

06
Bennington College

07
Pitzer College

08
Hampshire College

09
Sarah Lawrence College

10
Grinnell College

Let see how they did when you compare it with the data on full-bright scholars?
Top U.S. Producers of Fulbright Students, by Type of Institutions, 2009-10

Research institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Northwestern U.
32
109

U. of Chicago
31
128

Brown U.
29
106

Stanford U.
28
87

U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
28
111

Yale U.
25
92

Columbia [...]

The Fullbright program is the flagship scholarship program of the United States. Today we look at Master’s level institutions

Bachelor’s institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Pomona College
15
58

Smith College
14
36

Pitzer College
12
67

Kenyon College
11
26

Oberlin College
10
24

Swarthmore College
10
42

Vassar College
10
42

Scripps College
9
28

Wellesley College
9
36

New College of Florida
8
22

Barnard College
7
16

Grinnell College
7
31

Kalamazoo College
7
15

Bowdoin College
6
20

Occidental College
6
20

U. of Richmond
6
30

Wheaton College (Mass.)
6
14

Williams College
6
35

Amherst College
5
35

Denison U.
5
22

Trinity College (Conn.)
5
16

Agnes Scott College
4
7

Claremont McKenna College
4
21

College of [...]

The Fullbright program is the flagship scholarship program of the United States. Today we look at Master’s level insitutions:

Master’s institutions
Number of awards
Number of applicants

Rollins College
4
7

Drake U.
3
8

Hunter College of City U. of New York
3
7

Saint Joseph’s U. (Pa.)
3
8

U. of Portland
3
5

U. of Redlands
3
14

U. of Scranton
3
7

Valparaiso U.
3
7

Augsburg College
2
2

California State U. at Sacramento
2
4

Canisius College
2
3

Central Washington U.
2
2

City College of City U. [...]

From The Economist:

Based on the study from OECD. Learn more:

The BBC reports that: “As of January 22, the number of UK-based applicants, 499,451, was up 22.1%, while overseas applications rose 28.7% to 71,105. And more would-be students may yet apply.” This is just the latest of several years of increases.

The BBC further reports that the Russell Group–a consortium of the most competitive universities–experienced increases [...]

This time at Vanderbilt:
On Feb. 5, an email that was supposed to be a courtesy to international applicants waiting for their letters of acceptance from Vanderbilt was sent accidentally to 56 other students who had not made the cut.

Someone was a little too quick on the draw over at George Washington U and sent acceptance emails to students who were not accepted…
“A very small number of Early Decision 2 applicants received the email in error,” Napper said in an e-mail Wednesday. “We realized the computer glitch soon after it was sent and have [...]

The AMA made a profound mistake years ago in predicting there would be too many doctors. This resulted in only 1 new medical school opening in a thrity year period. It, of course, proved dumb since the US population kept going up and up. Rural communities already go without doctors. Of course this scarcity has [...]

Joshua Kim explains what he will be–and not–looking for when his kids start the college search in 2019 (Always good to get a head start).
Colleges and universities that invest in creating personalized learning opportunities will gain significant advantages in the competitive market for students.
Some attributes that we will look for in selecting a college:
- A [...]