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A wonderful paper on college counseling. This paper explores the role of admissions consultants and the need for free access to their important roles. -
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Daniel Creasy and the other Johns Hopkins University admissions office staff have to read 200 files a week to get through the 14,840 applications piled on chairs and crates in the hallways. That's 65 percent more applicants than they had just five years ago -- so many, Creasy joked, that he has to get his dog to help read them. [...] -
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Extra credit for AP courses, parental lobbying and genuine hard work by the most competitive students have combined to shatter any semblance of a Bell curve, one in which 'A's are reserved only for the very best. For example, of the 47,317 applications the University of California, Los Angeles, received for this fall's freshman class, nearly 21,000 had GPAs of 4.0 or above. -
1voteCampus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning -- and that was just the beginning.
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Wow, another one bites the dust! -
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This fall, the debate over racial preferences in education returns to the national stage. But this divisive issue just isn’t what it used to be. -
1voteThough just teenagers, the applicants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a scarily accomplished lot. They have started businesses and published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage. In their high schools, they have led every extracurricular club and mastered the SAT.
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