Having gone through the college selection process four times in recent years with my two daughters (yup, they both transferred from public state universities to private schools -- oddly both of them run by Jesuits), I can tell you that college's love the rankings put out by various guides.
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The latest U.S. News College Rankings has again listed Princeton University as the top school for undergraduate students, while a separate annual ranking compiled by Kaplan and Newsweek also selected Princeton as a top school.
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Meal points? Check. Laundry money? Check. Laptop? Check. Wireless phone? Check. High speed Internet connection without a phone line for under $30? Check!
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Antioch University's Board of Trustees voted to suspend operations on July 1, 2008 of Antioch College, the University's undergraduate residential program in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with the intention of reopening a state-of-the art campus.
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More first-generation college students cite parental encouragement as a key reason for attending college than their peers with college-educated parents, according to a new survey of freshman trends released by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA.
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A record applicant pool of 22,955 applied to Harvard College this year, resulting in a number of new milestones. Traditional admission letters (and e-mails) were sent today (March 29) to 9 percent (2,058) of the pool, the lowest admit rate in Harvard's history.
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IBM today announced that it will work with academia to build a worldwide repository of materials that will enable student developers to make software more accessible to those with disabilities and the aging population
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Where can an online student go for credible advice about online college courses or learning? eLearners.com, the leading resource for connecting students with online education, has answered that question with the launch of the "Guide to Online Education."
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National science literacy expert and Michigan State University professor Jon Miller is having a running clinic at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. The goal is to inspire, educate and arm scientists to run for school boards.
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Mexican-American high-schoolers and their white peers aspire equally to go on to college to chase their dreams, but the minority students see many more hurdles in their paths, say researchers at the University of Oregon.
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Despite playing a game with less physical contact, female lacrosse players in high school and college sustain a higher rate of injuries to the head, face, and eye than their male counterparts, according to a study published in the February issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Students who entered college when they were 12 to 14 years old don't fit the stereotype of unhappy "nerds" who are humorless, isolated misfits, according to a new study. In fact, University of Washington research paints a different and much more positive and multi-faceted portrait of these gifted students.
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