Archive for the ‘ College Admissions ’ Category

Where the Smart Kids Do Their Matriculating

Too late for high school seniors who’ve already chosen their institution of higher learning, but perfectly timed for anyone who hasn’t made their final matriculation decision. [ READ MORE ]

Med Schools Turn It Up To Eleven

The crazy surge in med school applicants has finally triggered several new medical schools to come into being. [ READ MORE ]

Record Number of Applicants to Stanford University

Stanford just received the highest number of admission applications ever. And they have an outstanding pneumatic tubing system under their hospital. Coincidence? I think not. Posted by Alexa Harrington (image source)[ READ MORE ]

January 23rd SAT Results

Prospective college students who have remained unaware of the fact that January 23rd’s SAT results are up at CollegeBoard.org are waaaaaay too relaxed. [ READ MORE ]

“Applying For Financial Aid Will Be Easier in 2010″

The form is simplified and is no longer written in a language incomprehensible to even students with 4.0 GPAs and off-the-charts SAT scores. [ READ MORE ]

Have Some Perspective

No one actually gives a rat’s ass which institution of higher learning chooses you for matriculation. [ READ MORE ]

10 Tips for Starting Your College Search

The little nuggets are worth the 3 minutes it’ll take you to read the post. Even preschoolers know to prepare before battle. [ READ MORE ]

The College Search Begins

Hurl if you must, then pull it together and start thinking about which colleges you might want to apply to. [ READ MORE ]

WSJ On Campus and Unigo.com Present “Inside the Admissions Office”

The heads of eight admissions departments explain what they go through when reviewing the piles of applications they receive from high school students hoping to be granted acceptance into their institution of higher education. [ READ MORE ]

Excellent FAFSA Resources

Please take a moment to thank your god(s) that this excellent list of FAFSA resources exists for any and all questions that will inevitably arise when soul-having mortals attempt to fill out bureaucracy-saturated forms of doom[ READ MORE ]