Yale Early Action here to stay, questionable justification

09 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, Exeter

As covered by the Yale Daily News, Yale University has elected to continue its Early Action program.I’m not sure I like their reasoning.
The decision was made by weighing the benefits of joining Harvard, Princeton, UVA etc. vs. sticking it out with MIT and Stanford (who both vowed to keep Early). Opinions of those watching the [...]

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Mail from the future, Yale University style!

06 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as odd & fun, personal

No, it’s not a Terry Pratchett discworld novel, but I did get a letter dated January 10th from Chris Murphy, the admissions officer who reads for Phillips Exeter [Post about his info session]. The fact that Yale’s admissions office has been colluding with the USPS to send mail that hasn’t been written yet is quite [...]

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Thank you readers! All three thousand of you!

02 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as Internets, Irrelevance, personal

I’m writing this post from the past but I should be heading back into school right about now… classes start on the 3rd and I need to unpack and catch up with friends. I have some other writing I have to attend to in the short term getting ready for the MLK Day assembly and [...]

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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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