Posted on December 28, 2007 by deanflagel
Welcome back! I’d like to say it’s been a restful holiday while the blog was on a brief seasonal hiatus, but we’ve been very busy processing the buckets of mail that come in during the holidays (note to self – discuss moving holidays to July when not as many colleges and universities have application deadlines [...]
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Posted on December 18, 2007 by deanflagel
There seems to be a lot of confusion about how the major you list on the application may influence your admission. A few over-simplifications may help: A handful of institutions give great weight in the admissions process to the major you select. These schools usually state up front that they have very different admission standards [...]
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Posted on December 17, 2007 by deanflagel
As popular as they are, wikipedia and wikis are getting some bad press on the list serv of the National Association for Admissions Counseling. The counselors and admissions officers on that list regularly trade advice (ie – which college has the best underwater co-ed luge team that also offers courses in mortuary science and has [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2007 by deanflagel
Taking advantage of our D.C. area location, and an array of nationally prominent faculty, Mason has an incredible History department. In addition to a couple of Pulitzer Prize winners, consultants to the Smithsonian, a faculty that has more than 100 books to his credit (and I assume he never sleeps), for many years Mason History faculty [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2007 by deanflagel
Between list servs and emails, I generally get two to twenty web sites each week encouraging me to encourage you to visit. These usually follow a similar script, saying they are providing free information to you regarding admissions or scholarships. I’ll admit, I haven’t been working hard to review these sites…there are just too stinkin’ [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2007 by deanflagel
Heath Einstein, Director of College Counseling at Solomon Schechter School, posted an update to the list serv of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling of the colleges and universities that say they are using the best ACT subscores to calculate new (higher) composite scores for applicants. He notes that he checked with each school. [...]
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Posted on December 13, 2007 by deanflagel
I received this question from the folks at COLLEGEdata, asking for my comments. The question (with answers) will appear in the next CollegeINSIGHT newsletter. You can check out the current version at https://www.collegedata.com/cs/main/main_mag_tmpl.jhtml. Researchers (and by that I mean a few articles I’ve read online recently) agree that high school students now get along with their [...]
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Posted on December 13, 2007 by deanflagel
No, it’s not a way to heat up really tiny burritos (which was my first thought – mmm, burritos) but a way to dramatically increase the speed of DNA testing. Maybe soon CSI’s in the real world can get DNA results as fast as they can on CBS! Check out the story at http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/11255/
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Posted on December 12, 2007 by deanflagel
Unconfirmed chatter from the list serv of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling says that Washington University in Saint Louis and Amherst College are using the best SUBSCORES from multiple attempts at the ACT to use the students best total score across multiple tests. If true, this is a big departure – generally colleges [...]
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Posted on December 11, 2007 by deanflagel
Check out a whole bunch of college admissions stuff from the show Justice Talking at http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=634 Some of it feeds into the hype, especially the stuff about the “elite” colleges, but there’s some solid stuff as well.
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