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Top 10 College Websites for Finding Great Schools
Want to research colleges, but not sure where to start?
It’s no surprise. When I just typed “college” into Google, I got 634 million college websites. To make your job easier, I’m sharing wonderful websites that can help you assemble a great list of colleges.
If you want to research specific colleges, here are my Top 10 [...]
College Acceptance Letter Etiquette
High schools students have started receiving college acceptance letters.
A student writing on The New York Times’ college blog today suggests that teenagers shouldn’t brag when they start getting acceptance letters. Specifically, she believes that sharing college admission news on Facebook is in poor taste.
The freshman at Northwestern argues that bragging about college acceptances will crush [...]
The Latest Trend: Online College Matchmaking
How do teenagers find great colleges?
Traditional ways have included buying a copy of one of those big, fat guidebooks such as Princeton Review’s The Best 371 Colleges and the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Or teenagers look at US News’ college rankings.
Today, however, you can discover higher-ed possibilities by turning to online college matchmakers. Here are [...]
A College Blog RoundUp: Facebook, College Success and Free Schools
For those of you who have been visiting my college blog for awhile, you know that every weekend I link to college posts that I wrote during the week for CBSMoneyWatch.com.
I never got to do that this weekend because while I was in Baltimore covering an education convention my net book broke. Exquisitely bad timing. [...]
Check Me Out On College Week Live
Instead of spending much time blogging today (Thursday), I’m going to be talking about college instead. I’m a speaker at an online event put together by College Week Live, which is an organization that sponsors virtual college fairs.
During my 45-minutes presentation, I’m going to be talking about SAT and ACT test-optional policies. Thanks to the [...]
Why Mothers Should Never Be Allowed on Facebook
I’m not on Facebook. Okay, I’m a loser. Or at least that’s the vibe that I’ve gotten when people learn that I am Facebook-less.
If I truly want to create a buzz around my college book and my college blogs, I’ve been told that I need to be on Facebook.
Yet Facebook seems like a endless popularity [...]
College Twitter
Do you Twitter?
I don’t, but I’ve been getting pressure from people to start tweeting about college.
I’m still on the fence on that one, but I have started reading up on Twittering. I ran across a fascinating story this week about Twittering in the higher-ed world. A Twitterer (Is that a word?) at The Chronicle of [...]
College Admissions Stalking Online
A few days ago, I wrote a blog about how college admission officers are increasingly turning to new media when marketing to teenagers.
But teenagers are going to be more interested in how schools are using these new tools to snoop on them.
An ambitious study conducted at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, suggests that admissions stalking [...]
A College Facebook Scandal
The College Prowler publishes a popular series of books and undoubtedly part of its success can be traced back to its marketing efforts.
But the publisher recently got caught stepping over the line with a sneaky viral marketing campaign on Facebook. An enterprising blogger discovered that fake students were creating “Class of 2013″ groups on Facebook [...]
