February 11, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Blogroll
I read a lot of blogs each day. Too many by any healthy standard. I have selected here some of my favorites that are relevant to this site. Official Admissions blogs are those that are run by admissions counselors or committees, Student blogs are straightforward and detail the student experience at a given school, Admissions blogs written by independent counselors or others are in another category, as are Official / Sponsored student bloggers. There is another category of interesting Gossip-type blogs, still one more written by Faculty at any given school, and a last category about college marketing. Whew.
I'll update this page at random times of my choosing and this is merely a representative snapshot of some of the things I'm reading, not the whole picture. If your blog isn't here please don't freak out and assume the worst. Feel free to send me a friendly hello through my contact form and tell me that your site exists, I might not know about it. However, I make absolutely zero guarantees and respond really, really poorly to link-requests. Without further ado...
Official Admissions Blogs
- Case Undergraduate Admissions [Case Western Reserve University]
- Chicago's Uncommon Application, 2007-2008 [University of Chicago]
- Hopkins Insider [Johns Hopkins University]
- mawrmawr's blog [Bryn Mawr]
- MIT Admissions [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
- Notes from Peabody, a UVA Admission blog [University of Virginia]
- OSU Admissions Blog [Oregeon State University]
- Seton Hill Admissions [Seton Hill University]
- The Tiger Beat Blog [Rochester Institute of Technology]
Student Blogs
- Elm Rock City [Yale University '07]
- On Rye, In Color [Ryan Kellett, Middlebury College '10]
- I Have Senioritis [Christian Montoya, Cornell University '07]
College Marketing
- CollegeWebEditor [Karine Joly]
- Bob Johnson's Blog on Internet Marketing [Bob Johnson]
- An Email Minute [TargetX]
- EducationPR
- Erevelant [Morgan Davis, Warren Wilson College]
- Higher Education Photography for Recruitment [FJ Gaylor photography]
- Intermedia
- Inside Higher Ed
- Managing the Gray - Marketing for the New Media Professional [C.C. Chapman]
- mStoner blog
- UBrander
- Zen and the Art of Higher Education Marketing (Defunct?)
School non-student Blogs
- EphBlog [Williams]
Gossip / Scandalous / Miscellaneous : )
- IvyGate [Ivy League Gossip]
- Bwog [Columbia blog]
- Wesleying [Wesleyan]
- Gadfly [Harvard]
- Sex and the Ivy [Lena Chen @ Harvard]
Faculty / Education
- Think:lab [Christian Long]
- Educated Nation
- ePrep [SAT and test prep advice]
School Newspapers
I'm a current 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.