By Lauren Joffe for The Real College Guide Heads up, traditionalists! A radical new idea promotes kissing the four-year academic program buh-bye and saying hello to a three-year system. As accustomed as we are to its infrastructure, it would take some serious shaking up to rattle the U.S. education system. Yet Robert Zemsky, chairman of [...]
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Archive for February, 2010
In the News: Videos as part of admissions applications
By Suzanne Shaffer on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
With technology progressing faster than we can keep up with it, Tufts University is inviting prospective students to post one-minute videos on YouTube telling the university a little something about themselves. According to an article in The New York Times: The Choice, one of the dean of admissions at Tufts came up with the idea: [...]
Read More...10 Things we learned from Videotaping 1200 College Tours
By Suzanne Shaffer on Friday, February 19th, 2010 | No Comments
Today’s guest blog post is from Collegiate Choice, a company that offers DVD’s of actual college tours filmed on location. Their DVD virtual college tours help in the narrowing down part of the selection process or when one parent cannot travel because of the additional cost or the need to stay home with the traveling [...]
Read More...Recession Safe Majors
By Suzanne Shaffer on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Today’s guest blog post is by David Replogle for “The Real College Guide” You could waste four years studying a foundering field. Or, find out right here what careers (and majors) are still worth pursuing during times of economic stress. Like the national census or a good Bruce Willis movie, a recession hits the United [...]
Read More...Is your college-bound teen a math wizard?
By Suzanne Shaffer on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | No Comments
By Lauren Joffe for The Real College Guide Math is your thing? Cha-ching! Turns out the 15 bachelor’s degrees with the highest starting salaries have a common denominator: They’re all math-related. Turns out that seventh-grade algebra could come in handy after all — in fact, you can bank on it. Why? Well, recent research shows [...]
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