December 7, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
Or, "It's not lying when admissions office does it" -- Just wanted to quickly highlight something which is not gross lying, but just mild misrepresentation. The Yale Admitted Students website has fantastic images of student rooms which are really really scrumptious and gorgeous and make you feel like everyone at Yale lives in wonderful palaces [...]
September 23, 2006
Posted by Sam Jackson
I don't like paying for postage very much when it comes to this college admissions business, just because I'm already preparing myself to fork over tens and tens of thousands if I matriculate somewhere. It doesn't cost very much to mail return postcards. I don't know what the dollar cost of printing off little inserts [...]
August 31, 2006
Posted by Sam Jackson
This is a follow up to a popular post I made few days ago, "Spend a Week inside my mailbox!" which offered readers the chance to see everything I got in the mail over the course of a week. There have been some budget cuts, and in this installment we can only offer one day [...]
Posted by Sam Jackson
Let me begin this post by thanking Morgan Davis of Erelevant for a very insightful comment which has once again conjured a response from me which I am reappropriating for the front page. I love the discussions I have with readers, which is why I would encourage more of you to interact a little bit! [...]
August 17, 2006
Posted by Sam Jackson
Morgan Davis is the Web Director at Warren Wilson, a small liberal arts college in North Carolina. He has a blog called erelevant which purports to be his "off-the-cuff blog about electronic marketing and working within higher education." It seems to more or less fit that bill. I found it while snooping around on Technorati, [...]
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.