(The following is a guest post by Scott Huntington.) It’s a new year and a new semester! Your senior year is halfway finished, and graduation is right around the corner. College is so close you can almost grab it, but there’s one final obstacle in your path: your final semester.
There’s a widely held belief that the harder it is to get into a college, the better the college must be. After all Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Yale all have acceptance rates of less than ten percent and look how good they are. Or are they good because they have acceptance rates of less than … Read more
Since last April I’ve been creating lists of 50-50 schools by various topics. There have been 31 topics generating 58 tables. The idea behind the lists is provide people with different ways of learning about schools they may have never heard of before with a minimum set of standards.
It used to be that big time college football programs were justified because they supported the rest of the school’s athletic programs.? However, according to the Wall Street Journal, in 2011 only 19% of the 120 teams in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivsion reported a profit. And given the increasing concerns of concussions and player … Read more
Emory & Henry College-Private Emory, Virginia 945 (910 undergraduates) DIY CR Ref: Does College Size Matter? 2013 50-50 Facts College Navigator 2012-13 Accepted: 72% 4 Year Graduation Rate: 52% 5 Year Graduation Rate: 59% DIY CR Ref: What’s Wrong with Looking at Graduation Rates? Finances 2012-13 Total Expenses: $41,344 Average Net Price 11-12: $19,389 Freshman … Read more
Apparently, completing the FAFSA can be detrimental to your college application and chances for financial aid. According to Inside Higher Ed, some unnamed colleges are using the order students enter schools to receive the FAFSA reports as a way of predicting interest in the school. Essentially, this means that some schools are using the FAFSA … Read more
Anybody trying to figure out how to organize and track their college applications should take a look at ApplyKit.com. The premise is pretty straight forward, select the schools you are going to apply to and the application pulls all of the relevant deadlines onto one easy to use webpage.
Clemson University -Public Clemson, South Carolina 22,698 (18,016 undergraduates) Does College Size Matter? 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Since I’ve mentioned several times that it’s not necessary to do campus visits, I thought I should discuss some of the alternatives. The obvious one is a virtual campus tour. Most college websites offer some form of online tour through either video, 360 photos, or a map-based walking tour of the campus.
