Congratulations Yale Class of 2012!

31 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, Yale, stress

This is just a quick post to congratulate all those who were just accepted regular decision to Yale for the class of 2012. This is a great achievement! Some of you will come to Bulldog Days, some (like me) won’t, and some of you will decide to go somewhere else altogether.
It’s also just a note […]

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Hello to Yale 2012 from Sam Jackson, Yale 2011

28 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, Blogging, Yale, marketing

Regular Decision notice for the Yale Class of 2012 comes out this Monday, March 31st. This post is addressed to both the regular decision and early action members of Yale 2012, and is posted on the admitted students website as well as my own blog.
This is my first for the Yale admitted students web site, […]

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Updates on SamJackson.org College Admissions / Higher Education Marketing Scholarship

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 […]

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Class of 2007 Senior SAT Score and Percentile Breakdown Report, Part 1: SAT I Reasoning

24 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, College Board, Financial Aid, Teenagers, Testing, stress

One of the most popular posts ever written for this blog was the one in which I wrote about the finer details within the 2006 Senior SAT College Board data. In a way, I am very much a beneficiary of the same standardized-testing and college admissions stresses which I rail against. However, that doesn’t mean […]

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Taking credit, assigning blame for the record number of college applications nationwide

18 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, College, marketing

The top two reasons that college applications continue to rise nationwide with such ferocity are: 1. demographic figures, i.e., increasing numbers of high school graduates in the echo boom and 2. application culture changes in the sense that more students are applying to more places than ever before. These nice explanations since they are neat […]

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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.”