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...
View ArticlePutting 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...
View ArticleShocking 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...
View ArticleABC 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....
View ArticleSpringtime 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...
View ArticlePull 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...
View ArticleWaiting 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...
View ArticleDeflateGate: 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,...
View ArticleForrest 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticlePuppetry 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...
View ArticleUndergraduate 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...
View ArticleProfessor 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...
View ArticleValue 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...
View ArticleCollege 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...
View ArticleCollege 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleValue 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...
View ArticleEngineering: 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...
View ArticleLiberal 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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