College Admission Trends

March 26, 2012

Here is an article in the Huffington Post by Patrick O’Connor, Director of college counseling, Roeper School, about college admissions trends.

Posted in Applications, College, In the News, Rejections, What Colleges Look For,

Colleges Report 2011 Admission Figures

April 6, 2011

Looking for 2011 admissions figures?  Read The New York Times article in The Choice blog, March 30, 2011, by Jacques Steinberg.

“By now, many of you who are applicants (or parents of applicants) for the Class of 2015 have received your admissions decisions.

When The Times launched The Choice blog two years ago this week, one of the goals I set for it was to insure that applicants could put their fat and thin envelopes in some broader context. In beginning to draft the chart of 2011 admissions statistics you see above, my colleague Eric Platt and I wanted those of you who got denied, say, by Columbia to know you were in good company: only 7 percent were accepted this year…”

Read the full article: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/admit-stats-2011/

Posted in Applications, College, Rejections,

Colleges’ Rejects Who Made It Big

June 25, 2010

Take a look at this Wall Street Journal article posted on msn.com about college rejections that had surprising outcomes.

This article was emailed to me by a parent. Here is what she wrote:

I thought you might be interested in this msn.com article. While it’s not particularly scholarly, I loved Columbia University President Lee Bollinger’s comment on page 2:

To “allow other people’s assessment of you to determine your own self-assessment is a very big mistake,” says Bollinger, a First Amendment author and scholar. “The question really is, who at the end of the day is going to make the determination about what your talents are and what your interests are? That has to be you.”

We tell Jay the same thing all the time.

Posted in College, Rejections,