College Application
US News Rankings: Nothing & Everything
Doug Lederer and the folks at Inside Higher Ed bring us a story today of Clemson University and how it manipulates data to help move
June 3, 2009
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College Fees
Traditional Four-Year Degrees Are Exception
You must read this article by Neil Swidley in the Boston Globe. Mr. Swidley pulls together some great information that shatters the myth of the
June 1, 2009
College Admissions
College Fit: How Does the Shirt Look on Me?
Shopping For Colleges Is Like Shopping For Clothes: You Gotta Try Them On
May 29, 2009
College Application
Adjunct Faculty & Student-to-Faculty Ratios
I recently wrote a post blasting the idea of student-to-faculty ratios as a bogus measure of educational quality. It turns out that universities themselves don’t
May 28, 2009
College Application +
Grades, GPA, Education: Compare Apples to Apples?
Today a reader wrote in to ask a question about comparing grading system between two different geometry classes in California. Picture this. Two geometry teachers
May 27, 2009
College Application
What is the Student to Faculty Ratio
Student-to-faculty ratios mislead. While they are oft-cited indicators of teaching quality, these ratios have no bearing on an individual student’s educational experience.
May 13, 2009
College Application
Economic Trends in College Enrollment
As an update to yesterday’s article in the New York Times about enrollment and yield trends this year at the most selective colleges, Scott Jaschick
May 11, 2009
College Application
Holding College Chiefs to Their Words
The Wall Street Journal came up with a neat trick: asking college presidents to write essays from the application to their own college. Tough assignment!.
May 10, 2009
College Application
Top Colleges See Little Fall in Freshman Commitments
Jacques Steinberg of the New York Times reports today that Top Colleges See Little Fall in Freshman Commitments. Unsurprisingly, students offered admission to Harvard, Yale,
May 10, 2009