April 19, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
No time to go into this in too great a depth, but just wanted to raise the point: for next year, Yale raised the student income contribution 15%, to $3000 for the year. This is a really big number when it comes to income that is meant to be earned while also being a full-time [...]
September 29, 2009
Posted by Sam Jackson
CollegeScholarships.org kindly sent along this really nice graphic about students loans today and the way their costs accrue to students over time. It just scratches the surface of some of the issues about student loans, but it's a valuable quick-look-tool. I wish it included information about financial aid, which I think is a very important [...]
May 19, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
Today I am very excited to announce that the college admissions scholarship I originally outlined and later updated is finally off the ground: myUsearch has stepped up to the plate and is offering $1000 to the best student essay answering the following questions: What has been the most frustrating part of your college admissions process? [...]
March 7, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
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 [...]
March 5, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
At the start of February I announced my desire to organize a scholarship through my site. A little more than a month later, things are really going strong. Here's where things now stand--still working things out: The Idea: A contest to propose the best new ideas for using new media, the internet, and technology to [...]
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.