the Sam Jackson College Experience

This information session was last Tuesday, September 26th. Ted O' Neill, director of admissions for the University of Chicago, came last Tuesday to do interviews (mainly for anyone applying early); that evening, he stayed around to give us a little bit of information about U of Chicago and to answer any questions we had about [...]

I found this exceptionally eloquent little piece in Stein Communications' higher education newsletter, The Scoop. Check it out here: New Marketing Models. It doesn't hurt that I wrote it, either... Here are the first two paragraphs: No matter how well-endowed a school may be, another finite resource will always be in short supply: time. The [...]

Sally Champagne of Harvard and Martin Walsh of Stanford were here this evening telling us about their respective institutions and then taking questions (and asking a few). I counted 45 people at the technical start of the session, but something like another ten had stealthily joined us by the end. As with the University of [...]

Ms. Jacinda Ojeda gave a quick information session yesterday afternoon, but I don't have very much to say about; I had hoped to ask some questions but there wasn't really any time for me to do so. She is the new reader for Exeter (and also reads for Maine, NH, VT, RI, and Delaware--web says [...]

I had a meeting with my College Counselor on Monday and we talked about all my schools and about essays and all those sorts of fun things. Mostly we talked about schools, going through my excruciatingly long list and seeing which could stay and which were what sort--where I'd be applying looking for merit aid, [...]