Disturbing anti-semitic incident at Yale: What’s happened to tolerance on campus?

24 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Campus, College, Ivy League, Student Life, Yale

There were a fair number of Yale Daily News stories last semester about various incidents of news-worthy intolerance; this sad trend seems to have continued this term with the “We Love Yale Sluts” debacle where, for those unfamiliar, a group of Zeta Psi fraternity pledges posted photos on Facebook of themselves holding a sign with [...]

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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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Why can’t Yale recruit low income students? [Pell Grants]

20 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Financial Aid, Harvard, Ivy League, Yale, marketing

There has been a 14 percent decrease in the number of Yale students getting Pell grants in the last 8 years, according to Pell Institute senior scholar Tom Mortenson study, reports the Yale Daily News. Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzell disagreed by citing more limited data which statistics professors at Yale argued were statistically invalid. [...]

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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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Advertise on the site today! Support my college education, the site, and promote your brand or site.

13 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Advertisements, Internets, personal

Hello everyone! I just made a nice direct advertising page. Please consider advertising on the site today. You’ll support my college education and the site while getting great exposure. I’ve taken down the Google AdSense ads (yay!) but want to replace that revenue… with direct ad sales! They could look like the sample unit you [...]

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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.

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.”