College Admissions Myths
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Nine things you thought would get you into college--but won't.
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Interviewing would-be students is so unreliable universities might as well toss a coin, an admissions expert told MPs.
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You don't have to be a hoop junkie to handicap the Ivy League race. Just go with a Princeton-Penn quiniela. The Tigers and Quakers have monopolized the Ivies for more than a generation.
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Richard Gibbons offers a simple strategy to ensure that your child can go to college.
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A few universities might offer cut-price courses in an effort to woo students, it has emerged.
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A new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don't get it for a simple reason - they don't apply.    The study released Monday by the American Council on Education, which represents colleges and universities, says that half of the 8 million undergraduates enrolled in 1999-2000 at institutions participating in federal student aid programs did not complete the main federal aid application form...
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A young person's life prospects improve dramatically by getting a college education, but the country's schools have room for only one in six applicants
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Universities say choosing 'soft' subjects at A-level can narrow a student's chances of getting on a top course.
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LONDON - Just who do you want seeing your photos on Facebook, one of the fastest-rising of the worldÃÂÃÂs new social networking websites? If youÃÂÃÂre a student celebrating the end of exams with traditional end-of-term high-jinks, the answer just might not include your college disciplinary committee.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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SOME COLLEGE students know how to run for their lives. Take cross-country athletes. They do not get the ink. They do not get the television time. They do not have governors, alumni, and 70,000 fans fawning all over them, telling them how critical they are to the mental health of an entire state.
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Experts say the voting group phenomenon may be a myth.
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Providing one-stop shops for students looking at colleges, 35 states ease the labyrinth of class planning, financial aid, transcripts and online applications. Some private-sector sites offer unbiased student rankings.
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Students who rely on all-nighters to bring up their grades might want to sleep on that strategy: A new survey says those who never study all night have slightly higher GPAs than those who do
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A new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don&#39;t get it for a simple reason - they don&#39;t apply.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker unravels the trends in university applications.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.