(This is part 3 of Comparison of Top 11 College Search Engines)
In my original review of college search websites I had a list of seven requirements for a fictional high school student in her college search. The second factor I listed was that she didn’t care whether the school was public or private. Since she doesn’t care, you would think I would be skipping on to the next requirement.
(This is part 2 of Comparison of Top 11 College Search Engines)
In the original review of comparing college search? websites, I used a set of college preferences for a fictional high school student. At the time, I based them on the factors that seemed most frequently mentioned in the college search process-I know, not very scientific.
I don’t intend to become any more scientific this time around. I do want to discuss how the different search criteria can affect how much you pay for college.
After the Ivy League schools and their competition as ranked by US News, the next level of desirable institutions of higher education tends to be top research universities, usually state flagship institutions. While there are many different reasons why high school students want to go to research universities, for a certain group of students, the reason is the access to and influence of research.
Sometime ago I did a series of posts comparing college search websites. I tried to complete a search for colleges with specific characteristics and evaluated how easy it was to do in eight different websites. I think it’s time to once again compare college search websites but use a different approach. This time I’m going to organize the posts by search feature rather than website
(The following is a guest post by? John Rood of Next Step Test Preparation)
After astronaut, princess, and pro football player, doctor is one of the professions that people know they want to enter when they are young. Of course, doctor is the one that students generally stay with. For students who plan on going into medicine, choosing a college with a great pre-med program is a critical step.
Don’t you wish there was a college decision making machine? You just enter some basic information on what you’re looking for in a college, what you can pay, click a button and you get the results–go to school X now! Well Tier One Athletics has created just such a college decision making machine.
The US News and World Report Best College Rankings is considered by many high school students and their parents to be the final word on a college’s desirability. Not surprisingly, many others believe that the rankings represent everything that is wrong with college admissions today. The reality is that the rankings are made up of numbers and it is up to individuals to decide how to use those numbers. For those considering using the rankings, you should be aware of the following.
Last year I looked at the state of origin for the freshman class at 19 nationally recognized colleges. This year I’ve changed the list and expanded it to 25. No real methodology involved, I just wanted to include schools from different areas.? Basically, I wanted to get an idea of how likely students at these schools would be interacting with a national cross-section of students as opposed to mostly students from the same region.
The following is a guest post by Tom Bottorf of GetCollegeFunding.org.
I’m not sure exactly when the shift occurred, but sometime in the last 20 years, attending college has become synonymous with student loan debt. It’s pretty much assumed that the student should have some “skin in the game” by borrowing money to achieve their noble dream of getting a college degree.