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Heralded College Abortion Course Goes Quiet

Last October, The University of California – San Francisco offered an online abortion course via Coursera. It was the world’s first abortion internet class. According to the Coursera description, the...

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Putting Harvard off a year

The writer is a graduate of Harvard and recounts his and others’ decisions to take a gap year. By the spring of my senior year in high school, I was gasping toward the finish line. Though recently...

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Shocking New Common App Essay Prompts Available

All new Common App essay prompts revolve around identifying and defending your choice of favorite Harry Potter character. Ok, really they are kinda the same old questions. A bit more mushy and much...

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ABC of Publishing: Always Be Closing

So you’re taking an OrgChem class and using McGraw Hill’s Organic Chemistry, 9th Edition, Carey and Giuliano. You’re required to use McGraw Hill’s online practice & homework set platform, Connect....

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Springtime for Recommendations

Spring is the time for juniors to start thinking about recommendations. Before the end of your junior year, you should know how many recommendations you’ll need and who you’ll ask – and you should ask...

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Pull a Nina Mufleh Maybe

The job market is improving for the college class of 2015. A report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers that polled employers in February and March revealed that employers expect to...

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Waiting was the hardest part. Now being rejected is.

College rejection may be an awakening, but it sure is a rude one. Regardless of the kind of college – reach, target, or safety – rejection is unpleasant. It sends a fairly clear signal to you, and it...

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DeflateGate: The College Course. Can a movie be far behind?

The University of New Hampshire will offer a course entitled Deflategate for the Fall 2015 term. The course will be taught by Professor Michael McCann, a legal analyst and sports writer (and,...

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Forrest Gump Sends Out a Survey @ Harvard

Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust (who’s female) emailed 18-year-olds asking about oral sex. Really. She even offered them $5. In April, the president sent a sex survey to all undergraduates and...

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The Biggest Med-School Applicant Mistake

Do you have the right stuff for med school? Applying to medical school may seem to require some obvious qualifications: great grasp of biology, decent grasp of chemistry and physics, great MCAT scores,...

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Puppetry for $100,000

There’s been a lot of fretting over student debt, which is problematic if the recentgraduate doesn’t have a job – or at least a reasonably well-paying job. With that in mind, what could possibly go...

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Undergraduate Colleges & Admit Rates

When thinking about colleges, you should be investigating individual majors and schools within the college. Such considerations aren’t only a matter of what you’ll do once you get there but may also be...

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Professor Salaries: Colleges that pay for top teachers.

There are a number of factors that students and parents focus on during the college search process; many are rather meaningless (e.g. student/faculty ratio), while others are somewhat unknown. Faculty...

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Value Added College Rankings: Connecticut

The Brookings Institution, a public policy institute based in Washington D.C., spent 2015 crunching an enormous amount of data in an attempt to answer the question which colleges add the most value? Of...

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College Value Added Rankings: The Popular New York & New England College List

The Brookings Institution, a public policy institute based in Washington D.C., spent 2015 crunching an enormous amount of data in an attempt to answer the question which colleges add the most value? Of...

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College Value Added Rankings: Top 30

The Brookings Institution, a public policy institute based in Washington D.C., spent 2015 crunching an enormous amount of data in an attempt to answer the question which colleges add the most value? Of...

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The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time: Debt Servitude Emancipation

It seems axiomatic that accumulating significant student debt while earning a degree that’s in low demand is a recipe for disaster. It may also seem obvious that earning a degree that will get you a...

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Value Added Rankings: Taco Edition

The average University of Kentucky student graduates with $20,500 in student debt, and the University of Kentucky is ranked 1289 out of 1669 4-year not-for-profit U.S. colleges for value-added – which...

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Engineering: US News vs. Value Added

We’ve reviewed how much value many colleges add, including: Connecticut Common Northeast College List National If you’re not sure what “valued added” means, read those articles first. Now, we’ll take a...

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Liberal Arts Colleges: US News vs Value Added Rankings

Which liberal arts colleges add the most value? Of course, there are many ways to measure value, but if we focus on comparing expected incomes for the incoming freshman demographic (for each specific...

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