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And it shows that Stanford ought to reform not its financial aid - but its admissions - policies. It is true that tuition fees these days are obscenely high ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/17/EDO3VLH14.DTL
Michelle Wie has always had big goals, whether it's playing in the Masters or representing the U.S. in the Ryder Cup. Now Wie has accomplished one of her dreams, gaining admission to Stanford, one of America's top universities.
http://www.worldgolf.com/readers-review/michelle-wie-accepted-stanford-readers-respond-4863.htm
HATTIP TO SHECODES OF ???BLACK WOMEN VOTE! http://blackwomenvote.blogspot.com Free Ivy League Tuition ?? a must read Posted: 27 Feb 2008 10:42 AM CST This is one of the greatest initiatives in education that I have seen in a long time, and we must spread the word about it! Take a look around you. Do you see a bright, young black girl or boy in junior high or high school, but without the economic means to attend a top-flight college? Please contact their parents right away wit
http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/free-ivy-league-college-tuition/
If you are a Stanford graduate student and want to get some sticky experience in designing stuff to be viral, please sign up for Creating Infectious Engagement. This course is the third iteration of a vein of intellectual inquiry which began with Creating Infectious Action CIA two years ago, and became Creating Infectious Action, Kindling Gregarious Behavior CIA-KGB last year. Is there a government agency named CIE anywhere on the planet? Let me know about that one. As usual, the d.scho
http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/2008/03/stanford-dschoo.html
We petitioned on March 9 for this exact thing + Chronicle/WSJ: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HSBC Bank USA, the M&T Bank Corporation, and the TCF Financial Corporation have all decided to stop offering federally guaranteed student loans following last year??s decision by Congress to cut lender subsidies by more than 20-billion over five years. + All three are among the program??s 50 largest lenders, together providing more than 560-million of the 119-billion in federally backe
http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/20/twitter-ncaa-2008-march-madness-charity-pool/
If the committee NCAA, not admissions had enough of a sense of humor to match up Cornell and Stanford in the first round, why not Oral Roberts and Brigham ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/nyregion/23towns.html?ref=nyregion
So I come across this link for Stewart Uniersity: New Scotland International School of Medicine, which is apparently a ???new medical school??? and is somehow just down the road from Stanford. Funny, I??ve never heard of it. So I delve a little deeper, and my ???sketchy???-dar similar to gaydar starts to go off. As I delve a bit deeper, I??m even more concerned for students and potential applicants has scamming moved to medical schools now?. Let??s investigate the general info first: Right off the ba
http://www.grahamazon.com/2008/03/stewart-university-sketchy-new-medical-school/
Horn Brain Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 09:41:06 PM EDT Finally made it out to the new Disch-Falk Field today to watch game two of the three game series between the 'Horns and the Cardinal. Although Texas came up just short today, the game was very entertaining. I got a chance to see almost everything I wanted to check out, except for Kyle Russell, but more on that later. My thoughts: Texas is not content- I don't know that I've seen more frustration from a team at Texas. Several times during the
http://www.burntorangenation.com/story/2008/3/8/22057/12415
My husband's aunt is a literature/writing teacher in a public high school. She occasionally sends me students who are working on a persuasive paper and choose the topic of homeschooling to do an e-mail interview. I just finished one of these and thought I'd share my answers here. It's interesting to see how much the questions vary from one student to the next - this partifcular student is, evidentally, already very pro-homeschooling and is writing a paper specifically on the "pros" of homeschool
http://studeo.blogspot.com/2008/03/homeschool-interview.html
A number of prestigious colleges and universities across the country have discovered they are being hacked at an alarming rate. But the reasons behind the security breaches at the likes of Harvard and Stanford aren't the usual kinds of motives we've seen by cybercriminals and identity thieves.
http://www.personaltechpipeline.com/news/169500011
U.S. News and World Report released its 2009 rankings of the best graduate schools at midnight, including a list of the top business schools in the nation. Harvard and Stanford tied for first place, each scoring a perfect 100 points. Wharton came in third with 95 points. And in another tie, with 93 points each, Sloan, Kellogg and the University of Chicago shared fourth place. What??s changed since last year, you ask? Not much. Company at the top is consistent year to year since the statistics U
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/us-news-releases-annual-b-schools-rankings-harvard-and-stanford-tie-for-first/
Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we take a tour of the newest reports in the Clear Admit Wiki, a user-generated resource of applicants?? first hand experiences with the MBA admissions process. Before highlighting some of the latest additions to the Clear Admit Wiki, however, we??d like to remind all MBA applicants who have been interviewed this season that we??ve extended our iTunes gift card contest through this Friday, March 21st! Between now and this Friday, we??ll be awardi
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/wiki-wednesdays-last-chance-to-win-an-itunes-gift-card/
Being the hot shot student you are, you have a perfect GPA, wonderful letters of recommendations, extensive research experiences, and a Pulitzer winning graduate school admission essay. The admission committees at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, M.I.T. all had raging erections when they were reviewing your application.
http://www.applytograd.com/how-to-politely-reject-an-offer-of-graduate-school-acceptance/
Welcome to this week??s edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we highlight the latest goings on in the Clear Admit Wiki, a repository of applicants?? experiences with the MBA admissions process. Before we take a stroll through some of the newest posts, however, we??d like to note that we will be awarding a 10 iTunes gift certificate to each applicant who submits an interview report for Stanford GSB, INSEAD, Berkeley / Haas, UCLA / Anderson or MIT / Sloan limit one gift certificate per person. To be
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/wiki-wednesdays-march-interview-report-madness-10-itunes-gift-certificates/
Data. Data. Data. Data. Data: This is a scam. There are a great number of things detailed in the Ann Arbor News article that are questionable and few that are anything more, but this is a scam: Hagen set up independent study courses for two Michigan football players with just more than a month remaining in a semester. Rueben Riley and Gabe Watson dropped other classes and enrolled in an independent study course with Hagen on March 18, 2005.Sucking a kid into an independent study with a month to
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/data.html
8 Inside Higher Education article, Derrick Bolton, Director of MBA Admissions, Stanford Graduate School of Business, suggested that accepting the GRE test ...
http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybsb&story_id=115808009&ID=blackenterprise
The US News released its 2008 Grad School Rankings today. I'm going to list the top ten for business school, law school, and medical school and provide links to the ranking methodology for each category. For other graduate specialties, please visit the US News site. Business School Rankings and methodology 1. Harvard 1. Stanford 3. Wharton 4. MIT Sloan 4. Northwestern Kellogg 4. Univ. of Chicago 7. Dartmouth Tuck 7. UC Berkeley Haas 9. Columbia 10. NYU Stern Law School Ranking
http://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/2008/3/28/us-news-grad-rankings-are-out.html
Nice take on MBA admissions. Says-When I attended the Stanford Session, Derrick Bolton, told us an important thing. He said that "No matter what the outcome of this process will be, you are going to benefit from it. It's a great experience where you learn about yourself." Back then I never took his words seriously, but today I know what he meant.
http://mbaepic.blogspot.com/2007/07/hello.html
Standford has rejected 41 applicants who tried to access an admissions Web site earlier this year in hopes of learning their fate ahead of schedule.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=2&u=/ap/business_school_hacker
... that we admitted them, then we write to them and ask them to send us an explanation," says Robin Mamlet, former Stanford University, dean of admissions. ...
http://www.11alive.com/news/education/article_education.aspx?storyid=113368
A rising tide lifts all boats. There was a time when the Bay Area was subject to that proverbial rising tide, where easy money chased opportunities and opportunities minted even more money. During the tech boom of the previous decade, the rich got richer, the less rich got a bit richer, and most everyone was doing well. Little did we know how much this would be contributing to our ever escalating cost of living, whose effects we keenly feel today. After the bubble burst in 2003, things ha
http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/24/free-college-tuition-to-soothe-the-middle-class-pinch/
I??ve taken a look at many companies and called them lame, boring, or generic?? only to find that years later, they??ve blown up to be the hottest companies on the block. I didn??t actually have the opportunity to invest into Google back in 1999 because I was only nine years old, but I??ve heard of so many people passing on the idea of either working for or investing into Google. Firstly, there??s no possible way for people to completely know which companies are bound for success. Instead, it??s much
http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=331
Still, that rarely stops universities from trotting out their rankings in brochures, web sites and admissions literature. Here&39s a look at how Wisconsin ...
http://blogs.jsonline.com/136112.aspx
Also delivering a keynote address will be Gabriel Garcia, associate dean of admissions at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/815358.html
Seems it??s not just economics majors heading toward MBA programs these days. In recent posts we??ve talked about the new Harvard 2+2 program, designed by HBS to draw talented college students who might otherwise veer toward law or public policy. On the other end of the spectrum, we??re also spotting the emergence of new executive MBA programs targeting professionals in fields not traditionally associated with business ?? fields as diverse as professional football, religion and education. The NFL??
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/church-leaders-school-principals-football-players-b-school-welcomes-all/
On its 25th birthday, Infosys became world's 3rd company to ring the Nasdaq bell remotely. Forbes magazine calculated that statistically it is tougher to get a job at Infosys than get admission to Harvard. HQ in Bangalore - Infosys earns US 2.2 b. Its a preferred employer for Tech grads in India & hires from top US/UK Univs e.g Stanford, Oxford
http://www.thebizofcoding.com/2006/07/infosys_technologies_celebrate.html
John Feinstein: Roy&39s recruiting has nothing to do with admissions standards. Mike can get any player he wants into Duke as long as they meet Prop. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/24/DI2008032401787.html
sigh how ignorant there is something wrong with the attitudes we are imparting to our children - a fellow Singaporean PhD student on IM I see that in the few years since I??ve graduated, things at my alma mater have gotten ever more mad. And yet, some things haven??t changed. Like this: Once these Raffles Junior College students, the creme de la creme from Singapore??s most pedigreed secondary schools, receive their result slips, their worries break into relief, grins and high-fives. But
http://diodati.omniscientx.com/2008/03/15/perfect-scores-perfect-students-a-perfect-storm-for-future-failure/
Post on eprep by Fred Hargadon, former head of admissions from Princeton and Stanford, calling college rankings to the carpet.
http://www.eprep.com/2006/12/13/admissions-advice-to-high-school-students-part-3-of-7/
But "many parents won&39t even allow their sons and daughters to apply to private colleges," Harvard&39s dean of admissions, William Fitzsimmons, ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20080326/cm_usatoday/thetuitiongame
A rising tide lifts all boats. There was a time when the Bay Area was subject to that proverbial rising tide, where easy money chased opportunities and opportunities minted even more money. During the tech boom of the previous decade, the rich got richer, the less rich got a bit richer, and most everyone was doing well. Little did we know how much this would be contributing to our ever escalating cost of living, whose effects we keenly feel today. After the bubble burst in 2003, things ha
http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/24/free-college-tuition-to-soothe-the-middle-class-pinch/
Right: Former Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh, seen here in a publicity photo when he played himself in an episode of ???Happy Days.??? ABC Entertainment Photo Jim Harbaugh, a former quarterback at the University of Michigan, took over as Stanford??s head coach when he was hired in December of 2006. One of the problems Harbaugh faces at Stanford is the higher admissions standards, which reduces the amount of available recruits. Harbaugh inherited a team that went 1-11 during the 2006 season, a
http://buckeyebanter.com/2008/03/21/maybe-harbaugh-was-right/
Magical Thinking ?? Real, but ahead of its time? Every time I read something purporting to dismiss magical thinking as an artifact of the early days of man, I'm amused by the vehemence of the dismissal of the practice as foolish and illogical. What happens a century or three down the line when "jaunting" ?? or its ilk ?? appears? Here's a typical piece, by Shankar Vedantam from the February 5, 2007 Washington Post. A Game of Magical Thinking Leaves Reality on the Sidelines The 58 fans sittin
http://bookofjoe.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/27/o080u.jpg
Wanna go to Columbia? The university just revised their financial aid policy. And now you can probably get out without dragging around a student loan for a decade after graduation - if your family income is less than 60,000 a year, according to the College Admissions Counseling Blog. Columbia's move is part of a much larger trend to revamp financial aid. America's top tier college's and universities want to attract a larger part of the cream of the crop, and in order to do that they're removi
http://www.universities-weblog.com/50226711/so_far_in_march_mit_columbia_others_drop_loans.php
It came near the beginning of the first of two Tanner Lectures on Human Values he delivered at Stanford last April: "As it happens," he said, "I have passed ...
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/1934/32/
Brad Holland: The former San Diego coach recruited all the players who beat UConn despite the second-highest admissions bar in the conference behind Santa ...
http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/collegesports/2008/03/24/ncaa-tournament-winners-from-the-first-weekend-stanford-the-lopezes-kevin-love-and-more/
Found this story at InstaPundit today... Elite colleges have been undermining their own efforts to diversify by giving much more weight to high SAT scores than they did before, according to an analysis of College Board data presented this morning at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. Over the past two or three decades, the share of freshman-class seats that elite colleges award to students with high SAT scores has risen significantly??and risen more quickly t
http://itismymind.blogspot.com/2008/03/elite-colleges-scramble-to-enroll-high.html
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Free tuition is no substitute for dropping legacy admissions - San Francisco Chronicle
And it shows that Stanford ought to reform not its financial aid - but its admissions - policies. It is true that tuition fees these days are obscenely high ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/17/EDO3VLH14.DTL
Michelle Wie admitted to Stanford and WorldGolf.com readers weigh in
Michelle Wie has always had big goals, whether it's playing in the Masters or representing the U.S. in the Ryder Cup. Now Wie has accomplished one of her dreams, gaining admission to Stanford, one of America's top universities.
http://www.worldgolf.com/readers-review/michelle-wie-accepted-stanford-readers-respond-4863.htm
FREE IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE TUITION
HATTIP TO SHECODES OF ???BLACK WOMEN VOTE! http://blackwomenvote.blogspot.com Free Ivy League Tuition ?? a must read Posted: 27 Feb 2008 10:42 AM CST This is one of the greatest initiatives in education that I have seen in a long time, and we must spread the word about it! Take a look around you. Do you see a bright, young black girl or boy in junior high or high school, but without the economic means to attend a top-flight college? Please contact their parents right away wit
http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/free-ivy-league-college-tuition/
Stanford d.school viral marketing course rides again!
If you are a Stanford graduate student and want to get some sticky experience in designing stuff to be viral, please sign up for Creating Infectious Engagement. This course is the third iteration of a vein of intellectual inquiry which began with Creating Infectious Action CIA two years ago, and became Creating Infectious Action, Kindling Gregarious Behavior CIA-KGB last year. Is there a government agency named CIE anywhere on the planet? Let me know about that one. As usual, the d.scho
http://metacool.typepad.com/metacool/2008/03/stanford-dschoo.html
Twitter NCAA 2008 March Madness Charity Pool
We petitioned on March 9 for this exact thing + Chronicle/WSJ: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HSBC Bank USA, the M&T Bank Corporation, and the TCF Financial Corporation have all decided to stop offering federally guaranteed student loans following last year??s decision by Congress to cut lender subsidies by more than 20-billion over five years. + All three are among the program??s 50 largest lenders, together providing more than 560-million of the 119-billion in federally backe
http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/20/twitter-ncaa-2008-march-madness-charity-pool/
In Athletics and Admissions, the Time of Madness - New York Times
If the committee NCAA, not admissions had enough of a sense of humor to match up Cornell and Stanford in the first round, why not Oral Roberts and Brigham ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/nyregion/23towns.html?ref=nyregion
Stewart University: Sketchy New Medical School?
So I come across this link for Stewart Uniersity: New Scotland International School of Medicine, which is apparently a ???new medical school??? and is somehow just down the road from Stanford. Funny, I??ve never heard of it. So I delve a little deeper, and my ???sketchy???-dar similar to gaydar starts to go off. As I delve a bit deeper, I??m even more concerned for students and potential applicants has scamming moved to medical schools now?. Let??s investigate the general info first: Right off the ba
http://www.grahamazon.com/2008/03/stewart-university-sketchy-new-medical-school/
Art Briles Will Fit in Nicely...
Horn Brain Sat Mar 08, 2008 at 09:41:06 PM EDT Finally made it out to the new Disch-Falk Field today to watch game two of the three game series between the 'Horns and the Cardinal. Although Texas came up just short today, the game was very entertaining. I got a chance to see almost everything I wanted to check out, except for Kyle Russell, but more on that later. My thoughts: Texas is not content- I don't know that I've seen more frustration from a team at Texas. Several times during the
http://www.burntorangenation.com/story/2008/3/8/22057/12415
Homeschool Interview
My husband's aunt is a literature/writing teacher in a public high school. She occasionally sends me students who are working on a persuasive paper and choose the topic of homeschooling to do an e-mail interview. I just finished one of these and thought I'd share my answers here. It's interesting to see how much the questions vary from one student to the next - this partifcular student is, evidentally, already very pro-homeschooling and is writing a paper specifically on the "pros" of homeschool
http://studeo.blogspot.com/2008/03/homeschool-interview.html
College Admissions Routinely Hacked By Impatient Applicants
A number of prestigious colleges and universities across the country have discovered they are being hacked at an alarming rate. But the reasons behind the security breaches at the likes of Harvard and Stanford aren't the usual kinds of motives we've seen by cybercriminals and identity thieves.
http://www.personaltechpipeline.com/news/169500011
U.S. News Releases 2009 B-School Rankings, Harvard and Stanford Tie for First
U.S. News and World Report released its 2009 rankings of the best graduate schools at midnight, including a list of the top business schools in the nation. Harvard and Stanford tied for first place, each scoring a perfect 100 points. Wharton came in third with 95 points. And in another tie, with 93 points each, Sloan, Kellogg and the University of Chicago shared fourth place. What??s changed since last year, you ask? Not much. Company at the top is consistent year to year since the statistics U
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/us-news-releases-annual-b-schools-rankings-harvard-and-stanford-tie-for-first/
Wiki Wednesdays: Last Chance to Win an iTunes Gift Card!
Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we take a tour of the newest reports in the Clear Admit Wiki, a user-generated resource of applicants?? first hand experiences with the MBA admissions process. Before highlighting some of the latest additions to the Clear Admit Wiki, however, we??d like to remind all MBA applicants who have been interviewed this season that we??ve extended our iTunes gift card contest through this Friday, March 21st! Between now and this Friday, we??ll be awardi
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/wiki-wednesdays-last-chance-to-win-an-itunes-gift-card/
How to Politely Reject An Offer of Graduate School Acceptance
Being the hot shot student you are, you have a perfect GPA, wonderful letters of recommendations, extensive research experiences, and a Pulitzer winning graduate school admission essay. The admission committees at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, M.I.T. all had raging erections when they were reviewing your application.
http://www.applytograd.com/how-to-politely-reject-an-offer-of-graduate-school-acceptance/
Wiki Wednesdays: ???March Interview Report Madness??, 10 iTunes Gift Certificates!
Welcome to this week??s edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we highlight the latest goings on in the Clear Admit Wiki, a repository of applicants?? experiences with the MBA admissions process. Before we take a stroll through some of the newest posts, however, we??d like to note that we will be awarding a 10 iTunes gift certificate to each applicant who submits an interview report for Stanford GSB, INSEAD, Berkeley / Haas, UCLA / Anderson or MIT / Sloan limit one gift certificate per person. To be
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/wiki-wednesdays-march-interview-report-madness-10-itunes-gift-certificates/
Data
Data. Data. Data. Data. Data: This is a scam. There are a great number of things detailed in the Ann Arbor News article that are questionable and few that are anything more, but this is a scam: Hagen set up independent study courses for two Michigan football players with just more than a month remaining in a semester. Rueben Riley and Gabe Watson dropped other classes and enrolled in an independent study course with Hagen on March 18, 2005.Sucking a kid into an independent study with a month to
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/data.html
Business Schools Look to GRE to Boost Diversity - Black Enterprise
8 Inside Higher Education article, Derrick Bolton, Director of MBA Admissions, Stanford Graduate School of Business, suggested that accepting the GRE test ...
http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybsb&story_id=115808009&ID=blackenterprise
US News Grad Rankings Are Out
The US News released its 2008 Grad School Rankings today. I'm going to list the top ten for business school, law school, and medical school and provide links to the ranking methodology for each category. For other graduate specialties, please visit the US News site. Business School Rankings and methodology 1. Harvard 1. Stanford 3. Wharton 4. MIT Sloan 4. Northwestern Kellogg 4. Univ. of Chicago 7. Dartmouth Tuck 7. UC Berkeley Haas 9. Columbia 10. NYU Stern Law School Ranking
http://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/2008/3/28/us-news-grad-rankings-are-out.html
Write a b-school app and learn about yourself!
Nice take on MBA admissions. Says-When I attended the Stanford Session, Derrick Bolton, told us an important thing. He said that "No matter what the outcome of this process will be, you are going to benefit from it. It's a great experience where you learn about yourself." Back then I never took his words seriously, but today I know what he meant.
http://mbaepic.blogspot.com/2007/07/hello.html
Stanford Rejects 41 Hacker Applicants
Standford has rejected 41 applicants who tried to access an admissions Web site earlier this year in hopes of learning their fate ahead of schedule.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=2&u=/ap/business_school_hacker
Dealing with &39Senioritis&39 - WXIA-TV
... that we admitted them, then we write to them and ask them to send us an explanation," says Robin Mamlet, former Stanford University, dean of admissions. ...
http://www.11alive.com/news/education/article_education.aspx?storyid=113368
Free College Tuition To Soothe the Middle Class Pinch
A rising tide lifts all boats. There was a time when the Bay Area was subject to that proverbial rising tide, where easy money chased opportunities and opportunities minted even more money. During the tech boom of the previous decade, the rich got richer, the less rich got a bit richer, and most everyone was doing well. Little did we know how much this would be contributing to our ever escalating cost of living, whose effects we keenly feel today. After the bubble burst in 2003, things ha
http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/24/free-college-tuition-to-soothe-the-middle-class-pinch/
Me in 1999: ???You want me to invest into Google? Nah!???
I??ve taken a look at many companies and called them lame, boring, or generic?? only to find that years later, they??ve blown up to be the hottest companies on the block. I didn??t actually have the opportunity to invest into Google back in 1999 because I was only nine years old, but I??ve heard of so many people passing on the idea of either working for or investing into Google. Firstly, there??s no possible way for people to completely know which companies are bound for success. Instead, it??s much
http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=331
How Wisconsin fares in 2009 US News grad rankings - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel subscription
Still, that rarely stops universities from trotting out their rankings in brochures, web sites and admissions literature. Here&39s a look at how Wisconsin ...
http://blogs.jsonline.com/136112.aspx
CSUS president is keynote speaker - Sacramento Bee
Also delivering a keynote address will be Gabriel Garcia, associate dean of admissions at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/815358.html
Church Leaders, School Principals, Football Players: B-School Welcomes All
Seems it??s not just economics majors heading toward MBA programs these days. In recent posts we??ve talked about the new Harvard 2+2 program, designed by HBS to draw talented college students who might otherwise veer toward law or public policy. On the other end of the spectrum, we??re also spotting the emergence of new executive MBA programs targeting professionals in fields not traditionally associated with business ?? fields as diverse as professional football, religion and education. The NFL??
http://blog.clearadmit.com/2008/03/church-leaders-school-principals-football-players-b-school-welcomes-all/
Indian Tech Giant Infosys rings Nasdaq Bell on 25th birthday
On its 25th birthday, Infosys became world's 3rd company to ring the Nasdaq bell remotely. Forbes magazine calculated that statistically it is tougher to get a job at Infosys than get admission to Harvard. HQ in Bangalore - Infosys earns US 2.2 b. Its a preferred employer for Tech grads in India & hires from top US/UK Univs e.g Stanford, Oxford
http://www.thebizofcoding.com/2006/07/infosys_technologies_celebrate.html
Journalist and author - Washington Post
John Feinstein: Roy&39s recruiting has nothing to do with admissions standards. Mike can get any player he wants into Duke as long as they meet Prop. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/24/DI2008032401787.html
Perfect scores, perfect students - a perfect storm for future failure
sigh how ignorant there is something wrong with the attitudes we are imparting to our children - a fellow Singaporean PhD student on IM I see that in the few years since I??ve graduated, things at my alma mater have gotten ever more mad. And yet, some things haven??t changed. Like this: Once these Raffles Junior College students, the creme de la creme from Singapore??s most pedigreed secondary schools, receive their result slips, their worries break into relief, grins and high-fives. But
http://diodati.omniscientx.com/2008/03/15/perfect-scores-perfect-students-a-perfect-storm-for-future-failure/
College "McRankings" Are Meaningless
Post on eprep by Fred Hargadon, former head of admissions from Princeton and Stanford, calling college rankings to the carpet.
http://www.eprep.com/2006/12/13/admissions-advice-to-high-school-students-part-3-of-7/
The tuition game - Yahoo! News
But "many parents won&39t even allow their sons and daughters to apply to private colleges," Harvard&39s dean of admissions, William Fitzsimmons, ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20080326/cm_usatoday/thetuitiongame
Free College Tuition To Soothe the Middle Class Pinch
A rising tide lifts all boats. There was a time when the Bay Area was subject to that proverbial rising tide, where easy money chased opportunities and opportunities minted even more money. During the tech boom of the previous decade, the rich got richer, the less rich got a bit richer, and most everyone was doing well. Little did we know how much this would be contributing to our ever escalating cost of living, whose effects we keenly feel today. After the bubble burst in 2003, things ha
http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/24/free-college-tuition-to-soothe-the-middle-class-pinch/
Maybe Harbaugh was right
Right: Former Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh, seen here in a publicity photo when he played himself in an episode of ???Happy Days.??? ABC Entertainment Photo Jim Harbaugh, a former quarterback at the University of Michigan, took over as Stanford??s head coach when he was hired in December of 2006. One of the problems Harbaugh faces at Stanford is the higher admissions standards, which reduces the amount of available recruits. Harbaugh inherited a team that went 1-11 during the 2006 season, a
http://buckeyebanter.com/2008/03/21/maybe-harbaugh-was-right/
Magical Thinking ?? Real, but ahead of its time? Every time I read something purporting to dismiss magical thinking as an artifact of the early days of man, I'm amused by the vehemence of the dismissal of the practice as foolish and illogical. What happens a century or three down the line when "jaunting" ?? or its ilk ?? appears? Here's a typical piece, by Shankar Vedantam from the February 5, 2007 Washington Post. A Game of Magical Thinking Leaves Reality on the Sidelines The 58 fans sittin
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So Far in March: MIT, Columbia, Others Drop Loans
Wanna go to Columbia? The university just revised their financial aid policy. And now you can probably get out without dragging around a student loan for a decade after graduation - if your family income is less than 60,000 a year, according to the College Admissions Counseling Blog. Columbia's move is part of a much larger trend to revamp financial aid. America's top tier college's and universities want to attract a larger part of the cream of the crop, and in order to do that they're removi
http://www.universities-weblog.com/50226711/so_far_in_march_mit_columbia_others_drop_loans.php
A Nation of Jailers - Brown Alumni Magazine
It came near the beginning of the first of two Tanner Lectures on Human Values he delivered at Stanford last April: "As it happens," he said, "I have passed ...
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/1934/32/
NCAA tournament: Winners from the first weekend Stanford, the ... - San Jose Mercury News
Brad Holland: The former San Diego coach recruited all the players who beat UConn despite the second-highest admissions bar in the conference behind Santa ...
http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/collegesports/2008/03/24/ncaa-tournament-winners-from-the-first-weekend-stanford-the-lopezes-kevin-love-and-more/
Elite Colleges' Scramble to Enroll High SAT Scorers May Undermine Diversity
Found this story at InstaPundit today... Elite colleges have been undermining their own efforts to diversify by giving much more weight to high SAT scores than they did before, according to an analysis of College Board data presented this morning at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. Over the past two or three decades, the share of freshman-class seats that elite colleges award to students with high SAT scores has risen significantly??and risen more quickly t
http://itismymind.blogspot.com/2008/03/elite-colleges-scramble-to-enroll-high.html