I ran across these hilarious mistakes on college admissions essays submitted to Vassar and Bates colleges. You can find them here at Beliefnet.com. I laughed. And then I cried, knowing
During a recent trip to Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, I met a young man from Massachusetts who spoke beautiful Mandarin Chinese. I had lunch with him, and asked him about his
That’s right, folks. On some campuses, students actually want their universities to bill them more this year than last. It’s a matter of quality, they say. Some things you just
QS has published its QS Top 200 Asian University Rankings. Turns out I used to teach at #4: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Hong Kong universities are
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.
A recent article in the New York Times reports that many community colleges are morphing into four-year institutions offering Bachelor’s degrees. Part of this is about money. Part is about
Sometimes campus tour guides go above and beyond. While on the University of Alabama campus recently, I was treated to a private tour by a polite, knowledgeable, and good humored
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 of Inside Higher Ed points
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!. The results were reported the
