UPenn Info Session with Ms. Jacinda Ojeda

27 Sep

Posted by Sam Jackson as CCO, College, Exeter

Ms. Jacinda Ojeda gave a quick information session yesterday afternoon, but I don’t have very much to say about; I had hoped to ask some questions but there wasn’t really any time for me to do so. She is the new reader for Exeter (and also reads for Maine, NH, VT, RI, and Delaware–web [...]

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Exeter College Mini-Fair II

26 Sep

Posted by Sam Jackson as CCO, College, Exeter

This Wednesday is the biggest of the four mini-fairs this fall; this week is pretty interesting in general, college-wise here on campus. Here are the colleges coming for the fair.
Alfred University, Bard College, Barnard College, Belmont Abbey College, Binghamton University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western University, College of William & Mary, Colorado [...]

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College Fairs: use them effectively

05 Aug

Posted by Sam Jackson as CCO, College, Exeter

I’ve been to one college fair at school so far, and it wasn’t the exciting experience the college counselling office made it out to be. Sure, it was a little bit interesting, but it was an overwhelming introduction to the dizzying depth and breadth we’d be faced with when as we formally dove into the [...]

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Secret Tales from the CCO: Bell Curve Edition

29 Jun

Posted by Sam Jackson as CCO, College, Exeter

There is more qualified suicide-rather-than-college-rejection inducing news to share!
Now, the other day I received the packet of treats which the College Counselling Office had sent out a short while ago. In it was the most recent CCO newsletter, a reminder to do homework on colleges, a nicely formatted college list for our parents, that sort [...]

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The Futility of SAT Workshop-time

23 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as CCO, College, Exeter

So I attended tonight’s College Counselling Office-offered SAT 1 workshop on Math and Grammar. Entirely as was expected–almost entirely useless. I was reminded to factor out interesting things, and besides that, nothing was accomplished (though some time was wasted). Seniors and students who had gone to previous sessions told us, urged us, not to go. [...]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a sophomore 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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