March 19, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
I discovered an interesting pattern while playing around with Google Trends: if you compare 'Yale University' and 'Harvard University' with the tool, there is an eerie similarity in their trend lines. Even minor up and down ticks are mirrored across search terms. See for yourself: trends chart below, Harvard in red, Yale in blue. The [...]
February 20, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
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. [...]
September 23, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
What would college be without participation in random psych experiments? I won't be able to personally answer that question because I'm going to have to be a guinea pig in some experiments in order to meet the pretty easy lab requirement for my intro psych course, taught by the excellent Marvin Chun. Signing up for [...]
July 24, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
The Yale Online Course Information listings went live a little awhile ago but I had resisted the urge to start checking out classes--until now. I knew that if I dove into the thousands and thousands of course offerings, I would never escape! How right I was. But it sure does put a smile on my [...]
February 7, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
I got an e-mail from Jian Li last week who found my site and was happy to see I hadn't randomly trashed him after reading his story. I was careful about how I interpreted what I read about his case because it did seem like we weren't getting a lot of the important facts, and [...]
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.