FacebookGate. That’s what blogger social media in education guru Brad J. Ward has called the College Prowler scandal, in which the purveyor of college guides
Today’s New York Times includes an article about worried admissions officers across the land, especially at private colleges, who are noticing steep declines in the
The New York Times is running a Q&A with the admissions directors of Pomona, Yale, University of Texas, and Lawrence University. If you want to
About this time of year, some of my clients are pulling their hair out because they have to answer crazy questions on their college applications.
I find that some parents are stuck on reputation and prestige when they walk into my office and start talking about colleges. I try to
This past summer I had the opportunity to visit Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew of its
The Chronicle of Higher Education is carrying an interesting piece about admissions officers on the road, beating the bushes for applicants. Something tells me that
A recent op-ed piece in the Providence Journal by Donald V. DeRosa, the president of the University of the Pacific, makes the case that even
According to an article in today’s New York Times, Harvard announced that its endowment has lost 22%, and may lose up to 30% by the
