MIT Admissions Dean Resigns After Claims About Resume Surface

Change - and irony - in the air at MIT.



Lesson to all: Never lie on your resume.

UPDATE (5/2/07): MIT learns ousted admissions dean has college degree after all

Panel Backs Curbing College Admission For Top 10%

For those looking at Texas public universities, this concerns you!

"Legislation to scale back automatic college admissions for the top 10 percent of (Texas) high school graduates cleared a hurdle Monday but faces a fight to get a Senate debate."

By Polly Ross Hughes, San Antonio Express-News

Should College Students Have Background Checks before Enrollment?

The Virginia Tech massacre raises many questions. While it may take years for all the repercussions to be felt, right now there are actions you can take to get a better idea of the security situation and competency of the police on campus. When you are on the campus tour or visiting the admissions office before of after an information session, ask if you can visit the police headquarters and/or ask for literature about the size, qualifications, training, etc. of campus police. Some schools have larger forces than small cities, others have very few trained officers. But even if there are many officers, ask what their training is like and what precautions are taken to prevent unthinkable violence (Believe it or not, the best forces will train for exactly what happened Monday at Virginia Tech). Don't be shy! Speak up and get answers to these important questions before you sign on the dotted line.

College Blogs Tell It Like It Is

Too much information? You decide. Via The Boston Globe.

Private Colleges Set Bar Higher

With applications and SAT scores rising, more schools are rejecting even top-line students:

"At 17 of the 33 private colleges in the newspaper's analysis, the SAT score needed to be in the top 25 percent rose by at least 20 points from 2001 to 2006. Only three of the colleges saw SAT scores drop at least 20 points. The trend also showed up in California's public colleges, but was not as pronounced."

- By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee

A Great Year for Ivy League Schools, but Not So Good for Applicants to Them

"Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen."

By Sam Dillon, The New York Times

Reality-Challenged In Elite Academia

Allysia Finley, a student at Stanford University, figures out the meaning of real diversity and tells us about it in this exceptional Op-Ed in the Orange County Register.

ABC's Of The ACT: College-Bound Students Face Test's Rigors This Month

From The Green Bay Press Gazette.

Top US Colleges Show Record Rejection Rate

From The Korea Times.