October 10, 2007
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- June 2010 (2)
- 30: “Solitude and Leadership” : An Address at West Point (0)
- 23: Summer update (0)
- May 2010 (3)
- April 2010 (6)
- 29: Yale Final Papers and Exams, Spring 2010 (2)
- 19: Yale’s new financial aid policy: blood from stones (4)
- 19: Bulldog Days 2010! (0)
- 17: That special feeling, website redesign on the brain (0)
- 07: Writing my senior essay: Step 1, Picking a Topic (4)
- 05: What is this blog all about? A picture in words (0)
- March 2010 (3)
- February 2010 (2)
- January 2010 (4)
- November 2009 (4)
- October 2009 (3)
- September 2009 (6)
- 29: Students Loans: a portrait by numbers (0)
- 26: Dispatches from the Orient, vol 2: Adventures in Yunnan Province (7)
- 26: Happy Birthday Cameron! From the Peking University-Yale Joint Program: (1)
- 19: Dispatches from the Orient, vol 1: Arriving in China (8)
- 11: Hello, China! (3)
- 11: President Levin’s Yale Budget and Endowment Update, 9/11/09 (0)
- July 2009 (3)
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- March 2009 (3)
- February 2009 (2)
- January 2009 (4)
- December 2008 (4)
- 16: Official: Yale University Endowment down 25% since June, “17 billion is still a very large endowment,” Levin says (3)
- 15: Yale Early Action 2013 results arrive today – a message to students (9)
- 11: Why I want to be an Ethics, Politics, Economics major at Yale (10)
- 07: Yale Admissions Office propoganda watch: palatial student rooms (0)
- November 2008 (1)
- September 2008 (2)
- May 2008 (3)
- April 2008 (14)
- 25: Support Yale and this blog on The College Blog Network (4)
- 23: How to give college students instant heart attacks (with a single email) (2)
- 22: It’s time for Bulldog Days 2008! Prefrosh Invade Yale (2)
- 20: Current Yale Students: Take My Survey! Win $30 Mystery Prize! (1)
- 20: Did you know about Yale University’s Blogs? (A ghost town of blogs) (1)
- 19: Yale vs. Small Liberal Arts Colleges: part 2 (Money Matters) (6)
- 18: Yale vs. Williams, or, the importance of dialogue about college life (0)
- 18: Liveblogging the Yale Governors’ Cimate Change Conference (1)
- 17: Minor Site Maintenance and Improvements: Watch Your Head! (0)
- 17: Watch how Yale deals with a giant crisis! (Aliza Shvarts ’08 & abortion art) [UPDATE: Fake, performance art!] (7)
- 16: Harvard vs. Yale vs. Princeton: Facebook Fight (2)
- 14: My Yale Course Schedule, Spring Semester 2008 (3)
- 06: The Sad and Secret Problem of Yale’s Amazing Resources (3)
- 04: How to find Good Student Blogs: My Top Five Techniques (10)
- March 2008 (8)
- 31: Opportunity Knocks: Intern with danah boyd and the Berkman Center Internet Safety Task Force (0)
- 31: Congratulations Yale Class of 2012! (0)
- 28: Hello to Yale 2012 from Sam Jackson, Yale 2011 (3)
- 24: Is Yale a Tourist Attraction? (0)
- 19: Yale vs. Harvard: a Google Deathmatch (7)
- 11: Now an Official Yale Blogger! (7)
- 07: Money Money Money: Elite Prep School Endowments (0)
- 05: Updates on SamJackson.org College Admissions / Higher Education Marketing Scholarship (4)
- February 2008 (11)
- 29: Would you like 3.5 GB of amazing, free, legal, excitingly new music? Yes? Click here. (3)
- 28: Maintaining MY online identity (a teaser post) – random domain name purchases (7)
- 27: Carnival of Education #160: Tools and thought provoking discussion for students, educators, and more (20)
- 24: Disturbing anti-semitic incident at Yale: What’s happened to tolerance on campus? (5)
- 24: Class of 2007 Senior SAT Score and Percentile Breakdown Report, Part 1: SAT I Reasoning (0)
- 20: Why can’t Yale recruit low income students? [Pell Grants] (2)
- 18: Taking credit, assigning blame for the record number of college applications nationwide (5)
- 13: Advertise on the site today! Support my college education, the site, and promote your brand or site. (0)
- 12: Citizen Media Law Project launches online legal guide: really useful! (2)
- 04: Facebook as an education tool? Teachers friending students? Could soon be against the law in Missouri. (9)
- 01: A SamJackson.org scholarship? Plus: college blogging revenue talk (2)
- January 2008 (3)
- December 2007 (6)
- 28: Happy New Years everyone, I will soon be away on vacation… in Russia! (3)
- 25: DNA testing in College Admissions: A Little Affirmative Action talk for Christmas (3)
- 21: Wishing Samuel L Jackson a Happy Birthday! (1)
- 13: A messsage to everyone awaiting Yale 2012 Early Action Results: (14)
- 09: Major site redesign over the weekend! Exciting change list… (9)
- 07: Site is still messy, in midst of redesign (1)
- November 2007 (4)
- 30: Colleges demands for disciplinary records creates dilemma for students, counselors (1)
- 27: Should I publish an OPML file of my RSS subscriptions? (1)
- 09: Why students keep flunking school sites [Reality Check!] (3)
- 05: “Admissions in the Internet Age” : my College Board Forum presentation reaction (4)
- October 2007 (4)
- September 2007 (7)
- 23: Psych Studies at Yale! Participating in Experiments for Lab Credits (2)
- 18: Yale: where famous people like David Pogue visit and share stories, tea (0)
- 15: Naked Parties at Yale: a random note (1)
- 14: I updated my ‘about’ page, but it’s still not exciting (2)
- 11: Good news on the extracurricular front (0)
- 10: I’m busy at Yale but happy, let me describe how and why (2)
- 05: Yale is amazing beyond my wildest hopes and dreams in ways I never imagined! (4)
- August 2007 (5)
- 23: Getting ready for school means no blogging for a week or so (0)
- 18: Remember that time I was on the front page of the Boston Globe? (3)
- 16: Yawn: U.S. News & World Report 2008 embargoed College Rankings Leaked, still deeply flawed (2)
- 14: Marketing and Sales in College Admissions: A Worrying Trend (7)
- 01: Yet Another Reason Facebook is not a Safe Place for Photos: Ingenius Firefox Extension Rips Complete Albums (3)
- July 2007 (6)
- 31: Fact: Your SAT may be recycled. (0)
- 25: Why I never took the ACT, despite liking it better than the SAT (4)
- 24: The Yale Online Course Listing is live– goodbye, free time! (0)
- 14: Five of Many Reasons Why Yale Should Have an Admissions Blog (7)
- 10: Final Chance to Sign Up for my *Awesome* Admissions Blogging Webinar (1)
- 08: A Word About the Yale Admitted Student Questionnaire (4)
- June 2007 (7)
- 28: Gender in College Admissions: Why Women are Often Held to a Higher Standard than Men (5)
- 25: A Picture a Day: The Narrows, Zion National Park (0)
- 21: I hate Las Vegas and United Airlines, but love the national parks! (4)
- 11: Vacationtime: Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon! (0)
- 08: Four Months Later: Facebook Gifts retrospective (1)
- 06: With new Yale NetID and e-mail, I begin by… joining the Yale Facebook Network. (3)
- 04: School is out: Graduation, Summer Vacation are in. (1)
- May 2007 (6)
- 23: Google bans ads for essay services: so do I (1)
- 22: Rejection Therapy: Wall of Shame meets Scientific Method (0)
- 21: A word to schools about post-application surveys (1)
- 14: Roommate Roulette: Yale Housing Form (13)
- 07: Boston Globe agrees with me: Uncensored Student Blogs are best (1)
- 01: Social Networking applications for Higher Education: Karine Joly asks me some great questions (1)
- April 2007 (1)
- March 2007 (4)
- February 2007 (9)
- 23: Blog power outage tomorrow night (Grrr…) (2)
- 23: The single worst, most obnoxious thing a High School senior can ever do (0)
- 19: Actually, instant messaging -might- be ruining grammar after all? (2)
- 12: How to bond with Yale 2011 early admits, or, Diplomacy: backstabbing and deception! (1)
- 12: Getting to know me: Updated ‘About’ page (2)
- 11: CollegeWebEditor.com gets a facelift while my site implodes (2)
- 10: Colleges clearcut forests, pave fields looking for recruitment edge (1)
- 07: Jian Li writes in, clarifies Dan Golden weirdness! (0)
- 01: Sorry for the downtime (?) (2)
- January 2007 (8)
- 29: UChicago is funny about their ‘closing application’ notice (6)
- 22: Princeton is not raising tuition next year: impressive and considerate show of wealth (4)
- 19: MIT calls its early admits on the phone to congratulate them… why doesn’t everyone? (7)
- 14: The secret to my SAT success…! (4)
- 11: A great example of an official admissions blog: Chicago’s Uncommon Application blog (1)
- 09: Yale Early Action here to stay, questionable justification (4)
- 06: Mail from the future, Yale University style! (1)
- 02: Thank you readers! All three thousand of you! (6)
- December 2006 (12)
- 28: Getting into college is like winning the Cold War (6)
- 22: Ten “Must-read” popular posts from 2006 on the SJ College XP (4)
- 21: No Hesitation: Why I’m matriculating into Yale 2011 (16)
- 21: The two scariest books in the world for high school seniors (4)
- 20: Mark Zuckerberg is coming to town (literally) : submit questions for me to ask him (8)
- 20: What’s in the ‘fat envelope’? (What Yale sent me) (5)
- 19: Yalies = the happiest, most interesting people in the world? (6)
- 19: A brief reflection on the common application (0)
- 15: Yale College, Class of 2011 (15)
- 08: Sixty-four percent of Exonians applied early in 2006?! (15)
- 01: Startling Discovery: Paperwork less exciting than previously thought (6)
- 01: Institutional Character Assassination: trickier than I thought (0)
- November 2006 (11)
- 30: What I want to do with my life (a reminder to readers) (1)
- 29: Soul-crushingly heavy essay workloads (0)
- 28: Quick picture of me for readers (1)
- 21: Quick vacation update (0)
- 17: WSJ asks: ‘Is Admissions Bar Higher for Asians At Elite Schools?’ [part 2] (2)
- 13: WSJ asks: ‘Is Admissions Bar Higher for Asians At Elite Schools?’ [part 1] (25)
- 05: Class of 2006 Senior SAT percentile scores number-crunching! (8)
- 04: Weekend reading, college admissions history style (0)
- 02: Just got back my new SAT scores… went up a bit (7)
- 01: Early Admissions deadlines and their effect on Exeter Seniors (0)
- 01: Marketing Timelines: A response to Brian Niles of TargetX (0)
- October 2006 (12)
- 29: College Board is abusive; nothing newsworthy (3)
- 25: Mock Admissions with the Exeter CCO (9)
- 22: Phillips Exeter Academy 2006 College Profile (8)
- 18: Yale University Information Session (Chris Murphy) (3)
- 16: College Board, college admissions sap seniors of strength this week (0)
- 15: Phillips Exeter Doesn’t Report Rank… 95% of the time (7)
- 14: Yale Multicultural Open House: Some photos (0)
- 12: U of Chicago “Life of the Mind” is good, almost great; flawed (17)
- 10: Yale Multicultural Open House rundown: part 2 (0)
- 08: Yale Multicultural Open House rundown: Part 1 (0)
- 06: Yale Multicultural Open House (0)
- 04: What about submitting extra application material…? (1)
- September 2006 (17)
- 30: University of Chicago Information Session (Ted O’ Neill) (3)
- 29: Exciting, must-read article on higher ed marketing (1)
- 29: Harvard + Stanford Info Session: Twice the Fun (1)
- 27: UPenn Info Session with Ms. Jacinda Ojeda (1)
- 27: Williams, you’re off my list. It’s not you, it’s me. (0)
- 26: Exeter College Mini-Fair II (0)
- 23: NPR: Higher Education Marketing Report (4)
- 23: I don’t like paying for postage, but… (0)
- 23: I receive some short-term student blogging windfalls (0)
- 20: SAT Test Prep… the really fast way (0)
- 20: College Fair time! Lots of schools to meet today… (2)
- 19: Quick look at National Merit semifinalists from Phillips Exeter Academy (2)
- 18: I make National Merit Semifinalist round, have another essay to write (2)
- 17: Harvard Drops EA, class of 2012 panics (2)
- 09: Facebook “features” modified; problems remain (1)
- 01: YouTube ventures into stormy, probably profitable college waters (3)
- 01: I finally put Private Colleges & Universities “magazine” to good use (0)
- August 2006 (27)
- 31: Despite slurs, Jughead U still less prestigious than Yale (0)
- 31: All the mail that’s fit to print (in a day) (4)
- 31: Donor dollars trump interests of prospective students in student blogging arena (5)
- 31: Curious blogosphere Yale posts imply online smut? (2)
- 30: Cornell Student Blogs Crashing and Burning (12)
- 29: Spend a week inside my mailbox! (3)
- 28: Zen and the Fine Art of Essay Writing (6)
- 28: Room & Board up 5 percent; Forbes says: Buy real estate (0)
- 27: Cornell launches student blogging project (1)
- 27: I was interviewed last week for this site! (0)
- 26: Fun college news from around the world (1)
- 25: Columbia, UPenn to accept Common App …soon. (5)
- 20: I’m away on “working vacation” for a week (0)
- 18: How I judge each piece of college marketing: (6)
- 17: Authentic? Questioning the value of student blogging (0)
- 17: The Power of Public Perception: Colleges use Blogging (3)
- 16: Who needs Harvard? TIME attacks Ivy League (3)
- 13: College Visits: Yale University (3)
- 13: New material coming–promise! (3)
- 09: Women in College Outperform Men, forget to network (1)
- 08: 51 ways College Board can mis-score your SAT and ruin your life (3)
- 06: Instant messaging is grammar friendly, study says (3)
- 05: College Fairs: use them effectively (3)
- 04: College Board to make test using background info pt. 2 (1)
- 02: Colleges running out of students (2)
- 02: College Board online SAT course FREE: 69$ value (26)
- 02: College Board to make test using background info pt. 1 (4)
- July 2006 (9)
- 30: Don’t worry, not on hiatus (0)
- 27: Parents Crashing Campus Parties Nationwide (0)
- 27: Providence College Test-Optional, per God’s suggestion (0)
- 26: The Importance of Walking Backwards (0)
- 26: Harvard Business School becoming trans+ (1)
- 26: Firefighting school? Talk about niche. (1)
- 24: College Blogs: Mine and others (0)
- 23: BACK from being out college touring (0)
- 01: Numbers Overwhelming (0)
- June 2006 (2)
- March 2006 (2)
- 14: College Visits: MIT (2)
- 09: Yay College Board (0)
- January 2006 (2)
- 23: The Futility of SAT Workshop-time (0)
- 15: More about Me (1)
- December 2005 (3)
- 17: An Ugly Side of Admissions (0)
- 16: As if it could have gotten worse (0)
- 15: PSAT + NMQST = Fun! (1)
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.