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after unforgivable delay, news you can use
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010admissions decisions
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Regular (non-early, non-rolling) admissions decisions will sweep in over the next few weeks. Collegewise says not to freak out over rejections:
“One of the best ways to get over a college rejection is to look ahead six months from now. This September, you will be moving into a dorm. You’ll be meeting your new roommate while your parents exact a promise that you’ll call home on a regular basis. You’ll be buying a sweatshirt bearing the name of your new college. You’ll go to your first college class, start making your initial college friends, and officially begin your life as a college freshman. Do you have any idea just how exciting that’s going to be for you?”
Application Boot Camp, sagely observing that “[c]hoosing your college is an important
decision,” says not to rush your decision process.
And The Choice is running one of those cute admissions human-interest series so that parents of college-bound teenagers can goof off at work.
q & a news you can use
Monday, January 25th, 2010Two nice Times Q & As this week:
1. Clara Hemphill on NYC public school admission (3 parts):
“There is no quality control on the information the schools provide about themselves. It’s next to impossible to transfer schools, so you need to kick the tires and look under the hood of any school before you enroll.”
2. Mark Kantrowitz on the FAFSA and financial aid (7 parts):
“[Y]ou should submit the CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE form even if you think you won’t qualify for aid[,] because many families underestimate their eligibility for need-based aid. This is especially true at the colleges that require the PROFILE, since they tend to be among the more expensive colleges.”
And check out this one from September.
haiti schools & learning more
Thursday, January 14th, 2010News about Haitian schools is still horrible and scarce. There is, however, a morsel of minimally goodish news about some Haitian students in The Chronicle of Higher Ed’s otherwise mildly insensitive Haiti article (”The biggest challenge,” says a U Wisconsin study abroad official, “may be getting the [UW] students, who were scheduled to depart this Friday, back to Madison”):
“The Haitian Education & Leadership Program, a Port-au-Prince based university-scholarship program that provides merit scholarships to top high school graduates from Haiti’s poorest areas, reported that the organization’s center, located near the downtown district, has been destroyed…[and] four staff members have been injured. But there were no reports of any deaths among students, with nearly all of the approximately 60 students affiliated with the program accounted for.”
After taking action (if you feel so moved), learn about the crisis at the Times’s expansive Haiti site, which posts this excellent list for further reading about Haiti:
- Haiti: The Breached Citadel. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, 2004.
- Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti. Leslie Desmangles, 1992.
- Avengers of the New World. Laurent Dubois, 2004.
- The Uses of Haiti. Paul Farmer, 1994.
- Voodoo. Search for the Spirit. Laennec Hurbon, 1995.
- The Black Jacobins. C.L.R. James, 1980.
- From Dessalines to Duvalier. David Nicholls, 1996.
- Haiti: State Against Nation. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1990.
