This Wednesday is the biggest of the four mini-fairs this fall; this week is pretty interesting in general, college-wise here on campus. Here are the colleges coming for the fair.
Alfred University, Bard College, Barnard College, Belmont Abbey College, Binghamton University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western University, College of William & Mary, Colorado [...]

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NPR had a report last week about higher education marketing (NPR: Marketing Higher Education Gets Sophisticated), a short 5 minute piece which wasn’t really new to me in any way except for the fact that it highlighted some really startling figures. Namely, that private schools spend close to $2200 per admitted student–public universities about a [...]

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I don’t like paying for postage very much when it comes to this college admissions business, just because I’m already preparing myself to fork over tens and tens of thousands if I matriculate somewhere. It doesn’t cost very much to mail return postcards. I don’t know what the dollar cost of printing off little inserts [...]

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Headlines don’t lie–so what’s the quick payout from student blogging?
Why, awesome video game kitsch, what else!
Christian Montoya of Cornell had a photo contest on his student blog I Have Senioritis a few weeks ago, and on the spur of the moment I decided to enter it. As it turned out, I won, and will soon [...]

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I’m registered to take the October 1st SAT, since I wasn’t totally thrilled with my leftover scores from my 10th grade year. A year and a half later, I think I can improve on that original score… After all, that was the first time I had ever taken the SAT.
I think it’s reasonably well established [...]

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