Getting to know me: Updated ‘About’ page

12 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Esoterotica, personal

I updated my ‘About’ page to be more accurate and less numbingly extensive. Including here in post-form because, well, I know by my crazy-intense statistics gathering that not that many people have actually gone to the ‘About‘ page despite its very prominent placement.
Why I have this blog: I started this blog describing it as [...]

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CollegeWebEditor.com gets a facelift while my site implodes

11 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as College

I know that wanton mass linking is a bad, evil thing which destroys the internet (and boosts my Technorati ranking!) but all the same I’m inclined to send out a quick pointer to Karine Joly’s website, CollegeWebEditor.com, since it is her birthday! Assuming that, like boats, we give feminine pronouns to blogs. Her blog celebrates [...]

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Colleges clearcut forests, pave fields looking for recruitment edge

10 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Teenagers, marketing

One of the most important things I learned from my time at Exeter was that I did not want to go to a small, rural liberal arts college. Of course, I wish I wanted to go to a small rural LAC–I love the outdoors and there always did seem to be lots of good schools [...]

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Jian Li writes in, clarifies Dan Golden weirdness!

07 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions

I got an e-mail from Jian Li last week who found my site and was happy to see I hadn’t randomly trashed him after reading his story. I was careful about how I interpreted what I read about his case because it did seem like we weren’t getting a lot of the important facts, and [...]

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Sorry for the downtime (?)

01 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Exeter, Irrelevance

Sorry about the downtime today–or did no one notice? I have no idea what caused it to happen, but an important Wordpress file disappeared off the server entirely and so nothing was working properly until I discovered what was missing and solved it. Really, really strange since I wasn’t FTPing anywhere near there and it [...]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a sophomore 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.

Kind words about my blog:

Andrew Careaga calls it “a service to all of us in the higher ed marketing business.”

Christian Long says it has “dramatically inspired college admissions folks to take notice”

Bob Johnson says “I like [it] because I agree with so much of what he says.” and that “Paying attention what Sam writes will let you focus more closely on students who will actually attend your school.”

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

and TargetX calls my blog “good reading” and me “wise-beyond-my-years.”