Indiana University is “the new Wisconsin.” [WSJ]
NYC toddlers are 34% more excellent than last year. [NYT City Room]
The SAT still discriminates. [Head Count]
This professor is 110! [Tweed]
Posts Tagged ‘public universities’
after unforgivable delay, news you can use
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010round-up: news you can use
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010The DOE has announced 31 new charter schools for fall 2010 and, not coincidentally, a shiny new (charter school) common app due April 1. [TheInsideSCOOP]. Not everyone loves charter schools. [NYC Public School Parents]
Columbia has switched to the Common App, just like U Chicago did. [Bwog] So have U Conn, U Mich, St. John’s College, and Yeshiva. [Common App]
School budget cuts–ouch! [GothamSchools] Also (more) excruciating (than ever): Harvard and Stanford tuition. [Daily Intel]
Constance McMillen’s prom case went before a judge today (with mixed results); her anti-discrimination suit is already having a ripple effect in Southern schools. [AP, GLSEN Blog]
from the mouths of admissions deans
Monday, December 7th, 2009A panel of admissions nabobs from Wesleyan, Penn, Marquette, Princeton, Bryn Mawr, Grinnell, UVM, and Williams appeared last week in a movie-length Internet broadcast, via WSJ and Unigo, worth watching in its entirety. (Part I, however, is missing.) Highlights include stuff about the “backyard” advantage of local applicants, renegotiating aid offers, whether admissions officers look at Facebook pages (yes, of reported cyberbullies), resumes (they “hate” them), preparing for admissions as early as middle school (“I don’t want a seventh or eighth grader to think, ‘this is what they want,’ and have it drive the next six years”), and humor on the essay (redacted: “If you’re funny, be funny. If you’re not funny, don’t try it. Be very authentic.”)
Oh, yeah, and if you strangle your personality and stomp on your passions so you can become some sanitized (and probably inaccurate) image of the perfect applicant, says one dean:
“That’s going to lead you down a bad path. Because you’re going to get to an institution that isn’t…the right place for you.”
public universities, out-of-staters
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009US News & World Report, self-appointed grande dame of rankings, just published a list of the best colleges for out-of-state students. Because the list is based entirely on percentages of out-of-staters at each school, its utility is limited–i.e., it doesn’t actually tell you anything about out-of-state admissions/ financial aid standards, proximity to major airports, costs, quality of life, academics, graduation rates, or basically anything else of any concern to you. But it’s worth looking at. Interesting finds: most U of Delaware and U of Vermont (UVM) students are from out-of-state; fewer than 10% of Berkeley and U of Texas students are.
The list also confirms reports that public universities are now taking more out-of-staters (because out-of-staters pay more).
UC tuition hike
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Public universities are responding to the economic crisis in a bunch of different, awful (although not necessarily worse than their alternatives) ways. The New York Times reports tonight that tuition will go up 32% for University of California undergrads (that means Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, etc). From the article:
“Rodrigo Verdugo, 18, a freshman at the San Marcos campus and the first in his family to go to college, carried a sign that said ‘no fee hikes.’ He said he worried that if his parents, migrant farm workers from Mexico, could not afford state university fees, his younger siblings ‘might have to work in the fields, too, if this becomes so expensive.’”
And from the SF Chronicle:
“Regent Eddie Island had never voted for a fee increase before, but said the budget crisis was so severe he had no choice.
‘I understand the burden that fee increases place on students and their families,’ he told the board. ‘Some people around this table were poor and had very humble beginnings. But we’ve got to balance the budget. I believe the increases are now necessary.’”
No news yet on how out-of-state tuition will be affected. Stay tuned.
