Money Money Money: Elite Prep School Endowments

07 Mar

Posted by Sam Jackson as Exeter, Financial Aid

As a Yale student, it’s a nice reaffirmation of the resources available when I load the New York Times webpage and find a nice photo of the squash courts in an article about schools with massive endowments. Only in late January, when that happened, it wasn’t Yale at all–it was my high school, Phillips Exeter […]

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Sorry for the downtime (?)

01 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Exeter, Irrelevance

Sorry about the downtime today–or did no one notice? I have no idea what caused it to happen, but an important Wordpress file disappeared off the server entirely and so nothing was working properly until I discovered what was missing and solved it. Really, really strange since I wasn’t FTPing anywhere near there and it […]

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Yale Early Action here to stay, questionable justification

09 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, Exeter

As covered by the Yale Daily News, Yale University has elected to continue its Early Action program.I’m not sure I like their reasoning.
The decision was made by weighing the benefits of joining Harvard, Princeton, UVA etc. vs. sticking it out with MIT and Stanford (who both vowed to keep Early). Opinions of those watching the […]

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No Hesitation: Why I’m matriculating into Yale 2011

21 Dec

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, CCO, College, personal

I sent my reply card back to New Haven almost as soon as I got it; there was no question that I would be going to Yale next year. It wasn’t that way when I sent in my application November 1st, though. So what changed?
I would not have applied early if it had been binding, […]

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Mark Zuckerberg is coming to town (literally) : submit questions for me to ask him

20 Dec

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

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is coming to my school to give an assembly on January 26th. This is because he was an alum, ‘02. Phillips Exeter Academy is running some year-long assembly series for the 75th anniversary of the Harkness method at Exeter–the discussion-based teaching around a table that was made possible through the […]

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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.

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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”

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