February 1, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
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 be [...]
December 13, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
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 [...]
November 30, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
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 [...]
November 9, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
College websites were rated worse this year than the last--I'm not surprised that this is the ninth straight year of decline, and you shouldn't be either. TargetX is generally pretty spot-on with their weekly e-mail minute (though not always) and a few weeks ago they wrote about a survey of 100,000+ college-bound students polled by [...]
November 5, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Two weekends ago I was in New York because I was part of a panel about "Admissions in the Internet Age." My part was a very compressed summary of my general admissions-internet-teenagers philosophy with some examples of blogs and other online tools which appeal to students and are also great for schools. I said I [...]
I'm currently a rising 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. Click here to read my extended 'about' page.I'm currently a junior 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. I just got back from studying abroad at Peking University this past Fall 2009 in Beijing, China! Click here to read my 'about' page.