College Admissions
Graduation Rates for Four Year Schools
Notice anything about the following sentence? Graduation Rates Over Time: Private Research Institutions – Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education We compare here the graduation rates at four-year colleges for the six years ending in 2008 with the rates for the six years ending in 2003. This is showing the six year graduation rate [...]
Numbers that matter: college graduation rates
Another ranking system. the College Grid After helping numerous students with their college applications, we noticed a lack of useful tools to help manage the school selection process. We decided to build a website with a “top-down” approach to researching colleges. Within a week, the College Grid was born. It is improvement over the Princeton [...]
If you can’t join them, sue them
Now they’re suing UT for considering race in the admissions that fall outside the top 10 percent. UT sued for considering race in admissions “But for her race and ethnicity, it is our belief she would have been admitted to the University of Texas,” said Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, a [...]
Randolph-Macon College
Randolph-Macon College is a small liberal arts of less than 1,200 students just north of Richmond, Virginia. The college has two programs that I find appealing. It has a First-Year Experience that goes beyond freshman seminars. Undergraduate research appears to be prominent with it’s Schapiro Undergraduate Research Fellowship. And for those who ranking is important, [...]
College Admissions Selectivity Equals Quality?
The Princeton Review is one the sites I’ve been frequenting in my search for colleges that might accept my son and that he might accept. One interesting feature is its list of rankings. The New 2008 “Best 366 Colleges” Rankings on The Princeton Review We’ve created 62 rankings lists across 8 categories, based on feedback [...]
Who knew that privilege was such a disadvantage?
I’ve seen this book, “Acing the College Application,” around and just the little skimming I’ve done standing in the book aisle has convinced me that it’s a superficial treatment of the college application process. This review of Naomi Schaefer Riley’s seems to confirm it. OpinionJournal – Leisure & Arts Take this passage from Michele Hernández’s [...]
The College Search: Colby-Sawyer College
Just in case anyone is wondering what I’ve been doing instead of blogging, I’ve started the college search for my sophomore son. Notice, I didn’t say “assisting” him or “guiding” him, I’m the one doing it. He has absolutely no interest at this point. So why bother? Why not just let him reach the point [...]
No change to the top ten percent rule
Excellent! MySA.com: Metro | State AUSTIN — In a surprise move, the Texas House shot down a bill Sunday night that would have limited automatic admissions at the University of Texas at Austin for students graduating in the top 10 percent of their class. A cheer went up in the chamber with the final vote, [...]
The best money can buy
Agreement reached on top 10 percent law | Postcards from the Lege House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on changes to a 10-year-old college-admission law. Under Senate Bill 101, which still needs approval today from the full House and Senate, the University of Texas would no longer be required to accept all applicants who [...]
Where are they going to go?
This is a good idea. MySA.com: Metro | State Under UTSA’s proposal, guaranteed admission for top-ranked high school students would expand from the top 10 percent to the top 25 percent. Below that threshold, students would have to score from 920-1020 on the SAT, up from the current range of 830-970; on the ACT, that [...]