A SamJackson.org scholarship? Plus: college blogging revenue talk

01 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, Advertisements, Blogging, Internets, Teenagers, marketing, odd & fun, personal

One thing I have always wanted to do is make good use of my split audience. There are students and admissions officers / higher ed professionals–why not have them both work together for mutual benefit? What would really be great would be if the latter group pitched in to co-sponsor a scholarship, which would […]

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Four excellent ways to learn new words for the SAT without leaving your desk

31 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as College Board, Internets

Looking to study for the SAT or just expand your vocabulary generally? Do you like words, and find them fun? Turn your back on those who might call you strange and keep reading…

Read a book online! You can get loads for free on Google Books (a lot? who knows!) or the Gutenberg project (over 20,000 […]

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The Top 25 Strangest College Courses: Even Stranger Than You Might Imagine!

30 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Internets, odd & fun

Our friends at CollegeDegree.com have put together a really great list of quite bizarre college courses. Yale has its fair share of these, especially through the residential college seminar program, though none got recognized for the list here.
Devising exciting course names is a careful art, from the one-word pleasers (I shopped a mathy philosophy […]

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Return to posts: Business as usual!

30 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, Student Life, Yale, personal

Hey everyone! Sorry that I have been away so long. I had a lot of fun in Russia and Yale’s second semester has been going great, it’s just been really, really, really busy and as important as all my readers and this blog are to me, I don’t want to flunk out of school! Then […]

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Happy New Years everyone, I will soon be away on vacation… in Russia!

28 Dec

Posted by Sam Jackson as Travel, personal

Hope Santa treated everyone well this year, and that new year’s goes swimmingly too: I am off to New York for new year’s Sunday and then January 1st I will be jumping on an Aeroflot flight to Moscow and will be gone for about two weeks in RUSSIA! Which I am very excited about. If […]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a freshman 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.

Kind words about my blog:

Andrew Careaga calls it “a service to all of us in the higher ed marketing business.”

Christian Long says it has “dramatically inspired college admissions folks to take notice”

Bob Johnson says “I like [it] because I agree with so much of what he says.” and that “Paying attention what Sam writes will let you focus more closely on students who will actually attend your school.”

Karine Joly says my witty and fresh style “offers a rare glimpse at the mind of our elusive prospective students”

and TargetX calls my blog “good reading” and me “wise-beyond-my-years.”