Archive for April, 2007

Top Jobs + Salaries for 2007 College Grads

Good news! 2007 college graduates are earning higher salaries than last year’s grads, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Starting pay offers rose for bachelor’s-degree graduates in 26 out of 29 majors, the study shows. Among business majors, marketing graduates enjoyed the largest increase — 10.3% — for [ READ MORE ]

College Boys Who Think Rape is Funny

We saw this story on feministing.com. Their attempt at “satire” was bungled to say the least. It’s good to know that the women’s Center at UCSD is holding a letter writing get-together about this[ READ MORE ]

Attending a Highly-Selective College Does Little to Boost a Woman’s Pay

For shame! Even Ivy educated women are earning less than men. Is it due to career choices? Nursing? Teaching? Counseling? How wide is the gap when they’re looking at the same profession? Here are some shocking statistics: A report released on April 23, 2007 by the American Association of University Women found that “women one [ READ MORE ]

Make It A Crapshoot

  • April 22nd, 2007
  • Posted in College

Psychology professor Barry Schwartz from Swarthmore has a very interesting solution to the Ivy Game insanity that I’ve been so cranky about lately. Read his op-ed in the LA Times. He has some sound psychology-based arguments for making the college admissions process a “crapshoot”. “There is a simple way to dramatically reduce the pressure and [ READ MORE ]

Media Frenzy Around High Pressure College Admissions

Please make it stop. The high-pressure college admission insanity is verging on ridiculous. The parents are rabid. The kids are somewhere between highly-trained seals who can perform on command but may not be able to think for themselves, and freaked out lumps of carbon, hoping the extreme parental pressure will turn them into diamonds. Private [ READ MORE ]

Colleges Turning Down More Students Than Ever

Across the Country Colleges are Becoming More Selective On April 3rd, 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported that this year Ivy League, top-tier state schools and smaller liberal arts colleges received more applications trom well-qualified students and consequently turned down a higher percentage of them. Even schools that admit the vast majority of applicants are [ READ MORE ]