LARRY GORDON/EDSOURCE TODAY Decision day is finally here. The SAT exam and anxious cramming are past. Admissions application essays and financial aid forms were submitted months ago. And the happy acceptances and painful rejections from colleges and universities are in hand. So in recent days, Fernanda Soto and thousands of other California high school seniors […]
Read More »(Entrepreneur) by Matt Sweetwood. I applied to college by filling out an application with a pen and typing my essays on a typewriter. When I wanted to fill out another application, I repeated the entire process over again. Only a few people applied to many colleges then, in large part because there was no Common Application to make it easy. There […]
Read More »(The Washington Post) by Catherine Bond Hill. The frenzied atmosphere that pervades as high school seniors and their families make college decisions showed no signs of improvement this year. While young people are faced with difficult choices and trade-offs, some have already been made for them: The admissions playing field is far from level, and […]
Read More »(Good Education) by Liz Dwyer. IN APRIL, MY 10TH-GRADE SON DID SOMETHING I NEVER MANAGED TO DO IN ANY CLASS EVER: He finished his entire world history textbook. All 1,258 pages of it. Some parents might breathe a sigh of relief over this accomplishment (as in, whew, my kid is not a slacker), but I was skeptical. “Did […]
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