December 7, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Site is still messy, in midst of redesign
Apologies for the mess, still working things out. Thanks for your patience. Normal service will resume soon.
These are the posts from 2007
November 30, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Colleges demands for disciplinary records creates dilemma for students, counselors
How can we untangle good intentions from invasive tendencies when it comes to college admissions? This is a question that can be asked on many fronts, but has added relevance this year with the addition of a question on the common application about disciplinary and criminal records. The Boston Globe ran a piece two weeks [...]
November 27, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Should I publish an OPML file of my RSS subscriptions?
Reader Jay Collier recently contacted me and asked if I had ever considered publishing an OPML file of all my feed reader feeds. Feed Demon has such a feature, but I had never been able to really accurate gauge the ratio of reader-utility to pointless-egoism and had therefore refrained from posting one. But Jay inspired [...]
November 9, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Why students keep flunking school sites [Reality Check!]
College websites were rated worse this year than the last--I'm not surprised that this is the ninth straight year of decline, and you shouldn't be either. TargetX is generally pretty spot-on with their weekly e-mail minute (though not always) and a few weeks ago they wrote about a survey of 100,000+ college-bound students polled by [...]
November 5, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
“Admissions in the Internet Age” : my College Board Forum presentation reaction
Two weekends ago I was in New York because I was part of a panel about "Admissions in the Internet Age." My part was a very compressed summary of my general admissions-internet-teenagers philosophy with some examples of blogs and other online tools which appeal to students and are also great for schools. I said I [...]
I'm currently a rising senior 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.