Secret Tales from the CCO: Bell Curve Edition

29 Jun

Posted by Sam Jackson as CCO, College, Exeter

There is more qualified suicide-rather-than-college-rejection inducing news to share!
Now, the other day I received the packet of treats which the College Counselling Office had sent out a short while ago. In it was the most recent CCO newsletter, a reminder to do homework on colleges, a nicely formatted college list for our parents, that sort […]

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Wherein I have [more] nightmares about college

29 Jun

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, personal

A week ago tonight I had atrocious nightmares about bad incoming SAT2 scores, imagining that the scores from the June 3 testing were due out June 20th. This was of course not true which meant that this past Sunday I had the opportunity to have more visions of despair in my dreams! Woo. But I […]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a freshman at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale, and am an official Yale blogger. Click here to read my 'about' page.

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Karine Joly says my witty and fresh style “offers a rare glimpse at the mind of our elusive prospective students”

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