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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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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Should you worry about the collaboration between DNA test marketers and anxious students and parents eager to get their way into top schools? David over at EphBlog certainly thinks so (EphBlog is an unofficial Williams community blog which I mention here frequently as an excellent example of an unofficial school blog that adds lots of [...]

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I know a lot of people have recently been coming to the site via CollegeConfidential or panicked “Yale 2012 how to survive after deferral” googling. It’s amazing for me to remember where I was last year this time (Exeter, NH) what I was doing (finals) and how I was feeling (more stressed than any other [...]

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How can we untangle good intentions from invasive tendencies when it comes to college admissions? This is a question that can be asked on many fronts, but has added relevance this year with the addition of a question on the common application about disciplinary and criminal records.
The Boston Globe ran a piece two weeks ago [...]

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