11 Mar
Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, College, Internets, Ivy League, Yale
Yale doesn’t have publicly available admissions OR student blogs, but it does have student-written “Bulldog Blogs” accessible to admitted students. Last year, when I was an admitted student, I discovered that these were actually just ripped from the particular students’ personal blogs and reposted on the admitted students website. I thought about publishing all [...]
07 Mar
Posted by Sam Jackson as Exeter, Financial Aid
As a Yale student, it’s a nice reaffirmation of the resources available when I load the New York Times webpage and find a nice photo of the squash courts in an article about schools with massive endowments. Only in late January, when that happened, it wasn’t Yale at all–it was my high school, Phillips Exeter [...]
05 Mar
Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, Financial Aid, Internets, marketing, odd & fun
At the start of February I announced my desire to organize a scholarship through my site. A little more than a month later, things are really going strong. Here’s where things now stand–still working things out:
The Idea: A contest to propose the best new ideas for using new media, the internet, and technology to improve [...]