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November 2008
September 2008
May 2008
- Proudly Announcing a $1000 College Admissions Frustration Scholarship! Apply Today!
- End of Freshman Year!
- My Yale Freshman Spring Finals Schedule - 2008
April 2008
- Support Yale and this blog on The College Blog Network
- How to give college students instant heart attacks (with a single email)
- It’s time for Bulldog Days 2008! Prefrosh Invade Yale
- Current Yale Students: Take My Survey! Win $30 Mystery Prize!
- Did you know about Yale University’s Blogs? (A ghost town of blogs)
- Yale vs. Small Liberal Arts Colleges: part 2 (Money Matters)
- Yale vs. Williams, or, the importance of dialogue about college life
- Liveblogging the Yale Governors’ Cimate Change Conference
- Minor Site Maintenance and Improvements: Watch Your Head!
- Watch how Yale deals with a giant crisis! (Aliza Shvarts ‘08 & abortion art) [UPDATE: Fake, performance art!]
- Harvard vs. Yale vs. Princeton: Facebook Fight
- My Yale Course Schedule, Spring Semester 2008
- The Sad and Secret Problem of Yale’s Amazing Resources
- How to find Good Student Blogs: My Top Five Techniques
March 2008
- Opportunity Knocks: Intern with danah boyd and the Berkman Center Internet Safety Task Force
- Congratulations Yale Class of 2012!
- Hello to Yale 2012 from Sam Jackson, Yale 2011
- Is Yale a Tourist Attraction?
- Yale vs. Harvard: a Google Deathmatch
- Now an Official Yale Blogger!
- Money Money Money: Elite Prep School Endowments
- Updates on SamJackson.org College Admissions / Higher Education Marketing Scholarship
February 2008
- Would you like 3.5 GB of amazing, free, legal, excitingly new music? Yes? Click here.
- Maintaining MY online identity (a teaser post) - random domain name purchases
- Carnival of Education #160: Tools and thought provoking discussion for students, educators, and more
- Disturbing anti-semitic incident at Yale: What’s happened to tolerance on campus?
- Class of 2007 Senior SAT Score and Percentile Breakdown Report, Part 1: SAT I Reasoning
- Why can’t Yale recruit low income students? [Pell Grants]
- Taking credit, assigning blame for the record number of college applications nationwide
- Advertise on the site today! Support my college education, the site, and promote your brand or site.
- Citizen Media Law Project launches online legal guide: really useful!
- Facebook as an education tool? Teachers friending students? Could soon be against the law in Missouri.
- A SamJackson.org scholarship? Plus: college blogging revenue talk
January 2008
- Four excellent ways to learn new words for the SAT without leaving your desk
- The Top 25 Strangest College Courses: Even Stranger Than You Might Imagine!
- Return to posts: Business as usual!
December 2007
- Happy New Years everyone, I will soon be away on vacation… in Russia!
- DNA testing in College Admissions: A Little Affirmative Action talk for Christmas
- Wishing Samuel L Jackson a Happy Birthday!
- A messsage to everyone awaiting Yale 2012 Early Action Results:
- Major site redesign over the weekend! Exciting change list…
- Site is still messy, in midst of redesign
November 2007
- Colleges demands for disciplinary records creates dilemma for students, counselors
- Should I publish an OPML file of my RSS subscriptions?
- Why students keep flunking school sites [Reality Check!]
- “Admissions in the Internet Age” : my College Board Forum presentation reaction
October 2007
- College Board Forum!
- Keeping Busy at school: Read my Yale Herald column!
- Lynn Jawitz: My Favorite Florist in NYC!
- Do Looks Matter? Thoughts on the Admissions Office Aesthetic.
September 2007
- Psych Studies at Yale! Participating in Experiments for Lab Credits
- Yale: where famous people like David Pogue visit and share stories, tea
- Naked Parties at Yale: a random note
- I updated my ‘about’ page, but it’s still not exciting
- Good news on the extracurricular front
- I’m busy at Yale but happy, let me describe how and why
- Yale is amazing beyond my wildest hopes and dreams in ways I never imagined!
August 2007
- Getting ready for school means no blogging for a week or so
- Remember that time I was on the front page of the Boston Globe?
- Yawn: U.S. News & World Report 2008 embargoed College Rankings Leaked, still deeply flawed
- Marketing and Sales in College Admissions: A Worrying Trend
- Yet Another Reason Facebook is not a Safe Place for Photos: Ingenius Firefox Extension Rips Complete Albums
July 2007
- Fact: Your SAT may be recycled.
- Why I never took the ACT, despite liking it better than the SAT
- The Yale Online Course Listing is live– goodbye, free time!
- Five of Many Reasons Why Yale Should Have an Admissions Blog
- Final Chance to Sign Up for my *Awesome* Admissions Blogging Webinar
- A Word About the Yale Admitted Student Questionnaire
June 2007
- Gender in College Admissions: Why Women are Often Held to a Higher Standard than Men
- A Picture a Day: The Narrows, Zion National Park
- I hate Las Vegas and United Airlines, but love the national parks!
- Vacationtime: Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon!
- Four Months Later: Facebook Gifts retrospective
- With new Yale NetID and e-mail, I begin by… joining the Yale Facebook Network.
- School is out: Graduation, Summer Vacation are in.
May 2007
- Google bans ads for essay services: so do I
- Rejection Therapy: Wall of Shame meets Scientific Method
- A word to schools about post-application surveys
- Roommate Roulette: Yale Housing Form
- Boston Globe agrees with me: Uncensored Student Blogs are best
- Social Networking applications for Higher Education: Karine Joly asks me some great questions
April 2007
March 2007
- Sam goes to Washington
- Reader poll: How often do you check this site / RSS feed?
- For juniors: A way to look on the bright side of the college search process
- I am back! And I will never have a high school class again.
February 2007
- Blog power outage tomorrow night (Grrr…)
- The single worst, most obnoxious thing a High School senior can ever do
- Actually, instant messaging -might- be ruining grammar after all?
- How to bond with Yale 2011 early admits, or, Diplomacy: backstabbing and deception!
- Getting to know me: Updated ‘About’ page
- CollegeWebEditor.com gets a facelift while my site implodes
- Colleges clearcut forests, pave fields looking for recruitment edge
- Jian Li writes in, clarifies Dan Golden weirdness!
- Sorry for the downtime (?)
January 2007
- UChicago is funny about their ‘closing application’ notice
- Princeton is not raising tuition next year: impressive and considerate show of wealth
- MIT calls its early admits on the phone to congratulate them… why doesn’t everyone?
- The secret to my SAT success…!
- A great example of an official admissions blog: Chicago’s Uncommon Application blog
- Yale Early Action here to stay, questionable justification
- Mail from the future, Yale University style!
- Thank you readers! All three thousand of you!
December 2006
- Getting into college is like winning the Cold War
- Ten “Must-read” popular posts from 2006 on the SJ College XP
- No Hesitation: Why I’m matriculating into Yale 2011
- The two scariest books in the world for high school seniors
- Mark Zuckerberg is coming to town (literally) : submit questions for me to ask him
- What’s in the ‘fat envelope’? (What Yale sent me)
- Yalies = the happiest, most interesting people in the world?
- A brief reflection on the common application
- Yale College, Class of 2011
- Sixty-four percent of Exonians applied early in 2006?!
- Startling Discovery: Paperwork less exciting than previously thought
- Institutional Character Assassination: trickier than I thought
November 2006
- What I want to do with my life (a reminder to readers)
- Soul-crushingly heavy essay workloads
- Quick picture of me for readers
- Quick vacation update
- WSJ asks: ‘Is Admissions Bar Higher for Asians At Elite Schools?’ [part 2]
- WSJ asks: ‘Is Admissions Bar Higher for Asians At Elite Schools?’ [part 1]
- Class of 2006 Senior SAT percentile scores number-crunching!
- Weekend reading, college admissions history style
- Just got back my new SAT scores… went up a bit
- Early Admissions deadlines and their effect on Exeter Seniors
- Marketing Timelines: A response to Brian Niles of TargetX
October 2006
- College Board is abusive; nothing newsworthy
- Mock Admissions with the Exeter CCO
- Phillips Exeter Academy 2006 College Profile
- Yale University Information Session (Chris Murphy)
- College Board, college admissions sap seniors of strength this week
- Phillips Exeter Doesn’t Report Rank… 95% of the time
- Yale Multicultural Open House: Some photos
- U of Chicago “Life of the Mind” is good, almost great; flawed
- Yale Multicultural Open House rundown: part 2
- Yale Multicultural Open House rundown: Part 1
- Yale Multicultural Open House
- What about submitting extra application material…?
September 2006
- University of Chicago Information Session (Ted O’ Neill)
- Exciting, must-read article on higher ed marketing
- Harvard + Stanford Info Session: Twice the Fun
- UPenn Info Session with Ms. Jacinda Ojeda
- Williams, you’re off my list. It’s not you, it’s me.
- Exeter College Mini-Fair II
- NPR: Higher Education Marketing Report
- I don’t like paying for postage, but…
- I receive some short-term student blogging windfalls
- SAT Test Prep… the really fast way
- College Fair time! Lots of schools to meet today…
- Quick look at National Merit semifinalists from Phillips Exeter Academy
- I make National Merit Semifinalist round, have another essay to write
- Harvard Drops EA, class of 2012 panics
- Facebook “features” modified; problems remain
- YouTube ventures into stormy, probably profitable college waters
- I finally put Private Colleges & Universities “magazine” to good use
August 2006
- Despite slurs, Jughead U still less prestigious than Yale
- All the mail that’s fit to print (in a day)
- Donor dollars trump interests of prospective students in student blogging arena
- Curious blogosphere Yale posts imply online smut?
- Cornell Student Blogs Crashing and Burning
- Spend a week inside my mailbox!
- Zen and the Fine Art of Essay Writing
- Room & Board up 5 percent; Forbes says: Buy real estate
- Cornell launches student blogging project
- I was interviewed last week for this site!
- Fun college news from around the world
- Columbia, UPenn to accept Common App …soon.
- I’m away on “working vacation” for a week
- How I judge each piece of college marketing:
- Authentic? Questioning the value of student blogging
- The Power of Public Perception: Colleges use Blogging
- Who needs Harvard? TIME attacks Ivy League
- College Visits: Yale University
- New material coming–promise!
- Women in College Outperform Men, forget to network
- 51 ways College Board can mis-score your SAT and ruin your life
- Instant messaging is grammar friendly, study says
- College Fairs: use them effectively
- College Board to make test using background info pt. 2
- Colleges running out of students
- College Board online SAT course FREE: 69$ value
- College Board to make test using background info pt. 1
July 2006
- Don’t worry, not on hiatus
- Parents Crashing Campus Parties Nationwide
- Providence College Test-Optional, per God’s suggestion
- The Importance of Walking Backwards
- Harvard Business School becoming trans+
- Firefighting school? Talk about niche.
- College Blogs: Mine and others
- BACK from being out college touring
- Numbers Overwhelming
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. 
