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February 25, 2009
When it comes down to it, no admissions decision is really final, but your investment of time and energy may vary widely depending on which letter you receive. Here's what to do if you've been waitlisted, deferred, or denied.
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January 12, 2009
If you thought campaign season advertising, with all the e-mails and phone calls was fun, and if you think the best part of the holiday season was the incessant mailings begging and pleading with you to drop whatever you were doing and shop, then you must be loving deadline season. By now most you are getting pummeled with e-mail, IM, facebook messages, letters, postcards, automated phone calls, personal phone calls -- for all I know youre also getting singing telegrams for the most aggressive institutions.
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January 09, 2009
In an attempt to start the New Year off right, a tip o' the keyboard to some of my fellow bloggers whose musings I read on a very semi-regular basis. While I realize it's hard to imagine any other admissions site being worth your time, there are two I scan periodically.
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December 22, 2008
Have you joined a Class of 2013 group on Facebook for your favorite college? Great, but is it legit? On Friday, CollegeProwler.com admitted it had created over 200 such groups on Facebook, in a ploy to get in touch with their target audience -- incoming college freshmen. The company has since announced that they have removed their administrator privileges from all of the groups that they had created.
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December 16, 2008
A couple of things seem to stay the same year after year: embarrassing email addresses and deadline crashing. Couple tips: don't use an email address that is a source of amusement to the admissions committee. And you minimize risk of getting documents mismatched by getting in your application well BEFORE deadline.
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October 09, 2008
First, you need to get a better idea of what you really want in a location. Are you someone who prefers a smaller atmosphere? Lets say, for instance, you like to hang out with a friend (we'll call him "Bob"). Bob is fun. Bob is entertaining. Bob turns gray skies blue. And, when you are ready to put down the books and hang, Bob is the guy you want to find, and you want to find him right away. If you are at a small school, Bob will be easy to find. Bob rarely hides - he is most likely at one of the two campus hangouts. That is also where you'll find everyone else. All the time. Or in their room, since, really, those are the options. This is an incredible atmosphere for many students who want to walk into a room and have everyone say "Hi," not because of some freakish need to be falsely friendly, but because they actually know you.
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August 28, 2008
U.S. News & World Report has released its often-debated rankings of undergraduate and graduate schools. Harvard takes first place in national universities, while Amherst and Williams tie for first place in the liberal arts.
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