Startling Discovery: Paperwork less exciting than previously thought

01 Dec

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, CCO, College, personal

I have spent far too much of my time in the last 24 hours looking for school mailing addresses to label Teacher Recommendation letters. I am in fact only giving one teacher a complete set of stuffed envelopes, since of of my two teacher rec-writers is in the Nicaraguan jungle right now and has hers [...]

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Institutional Character Assassination: trickier than I thought

01 Dec

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, Teenagers, personal

Today is the deadline for finalizing college lists, as dictated by the Exeter College Counselling office. If it is not on our online CCO list by the end of today (December 1st) the school will not send transcripts to it; the list will be downloaded and that is the transcript-sending master list, pending any deletions.
It’s [...]

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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.

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