Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later.
The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most. Math is the language of science, engineering...
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How to Get the Most Out of College They’re privileged, pivotal years
Navigate them with as much care as you did the path that got you there. We overwhelm teenagers with advice about choosing a college. Go...
Extra Points for Being Nice! Dartmouth's competitive business school announces new criteria for
Top M.B.A. programs are known to evaluate applicants based on their grades, test scores, work experience and essays. Sure, these programs...
The first step to choosing the 'right' college? Ignore the rankings, says Stanford researche
New research review finds scant evidence for the widespread belief that attending a "top tier" college leads to success in school and in...
The Best Ways to Fix College Admissions Are Probably Illegal
Year after year, the admissions process at selective colleges seems to make high-schoolers and their parents only more anxious. The...
Wait-Listed, Rejected and Frustrated in California
Five UC campuses -- Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara -- received more than 100,000 applications each....
2018-2019 Common Application Essay Prompts
The Common Application has announced that the 2018-2019 personal essay writing prompts will be the same as the seven 2017-2018 essay...
More Colleges Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies--And That's a Good Thing
Back in the 1980s, Bates College and Bowdoin College were nearly the only liberal arts colleges not to require applicants to submit SAT...
Freshman applicants to UC soar to a new record, with UCLA again leading the way
UCLA has shattered its own record as the nation's most popular college choice for high school seniors, attracting more than 113,000...
THREE CHEERS FOR THE RANKINGS!
The US News and World Report Rankings came out earlier this week. Last year I wrote "The Rankings, Meh..." This year I'm taking a...
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