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College Admissions Craze

Alternate College Rankings

Tasha Gordon-Solmon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Comedy

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Tasha Gordon-Solmon

Fretting about college? Here are three schools that offer world-class educations, but have significantly decreased in popularity in the last decade.

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The Truth About College Rankings: Who is Really #1?

Kat Cohen | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

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Kat Cohen

There is no real "top 50 colleges": this zero-sum game of rankings renders meaningless. Students must examine a college's philosophy, environment, and academic offerings themselves.

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The Truth About Getting In: Knowing Your "Battleground" Colleges

Kat Cohen | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living

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Kat Cohen

With a record number of students graduating in Spring 2009, combined with a depressed economy, colleges will be flooded with applications.

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Deliberation, Education ... and Immigration

Peter Kaufman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

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Peter Kaufman

Why should we go to college? Let's admit that career advancement, fun, and variety have places in any good answer's line-up. But there's also the so-called "civilizing effect."

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The Anxiety Business

Eliot Schrefer | Posted 07.20.2008 | Living

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Eliot Schrefer

The College Board is both in the business of test administration and test prep. If this feels inherently unfair, it should -- it's like a doctor whacking your knee with a sledgehammer and then offering to patch you up.

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College Coach Charges Upwards Of $40K For Ivy Acceptances

Business Week | Susan Berfield, Anne Tergesen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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As I listened to my 8th period English teacher drone on for the third time about how Finny, a character in A Separate Peace, was indeed the main chara...

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