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Getting Stiffed by Harvard

on April 3, 2012 in Admission practices, Admissions, Applying, College Costs, Financial aid, Money, Scholarships

I received an email from a mom over the weekend who was unhappy that her daughter, who beat the odds and got into an Ivy League school, didn’t receive a scholarship from the institution. Here is her note: Our annual household income is more than $750,000 –my daughter is admitted to Harvard – does that [...]

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Finding Hidden Gems for Your College List

on February 14, 2012 in College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Research

Yesterday I described how you can use College Results Online to help you generate a promising list of college. If you missed it, here it is: Getting Ideas For a College List Here’s another idea:  Head to The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, which is the think tank that generates Forbes magazine’s annual college [...]

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What the Super Bowl Can Tell Us About College Rankings

on February 10, 2012 in College rankings, Research

Today I’m sharing with you a great post from Michelle Kretzschmar, who writes a college blog that focuses on using data to create your own college rankings:  DIYCollegeRankings. I hope you read it and also visit her blog. Football and US News Rankings Like more than 100 million other Americans, I watched the Super Bowl. [...]

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How College Rankings Can Hurt You

on February 3, 2012 in College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Research, Uncategorized

Yesterday, in writing about the latest college rankings scandal on my college blog, I mentioned that the institutional pursuit of college rankings glory, has hurt millions of students in ways they can’t even imagine. Today I want to elaborate on that observation. If you missed yesterday’s post, here it is: Colleges and Universities That Cheat [...]

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The Man Behind the College Rankings

on September 24, 2011 in College rankings, Evaluating Schools, Research

I’ve been in New Orleans this week attending the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. At the conference I’ve been doing short interviews with college experts whom I think you’ll enjoy hearing from. I’m going to start out today with an interview that I conducted with Robert Morse, who is the [...]

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College Rankings: A Weird Beauty Contest

on September 13, 2011 in College rankings, Colleges, Evaluating Schools, Ivy League, Liberal Arts Colleges, Research, Universities

As many of you know, I’m not a fan of US News and World Report’s college rankings even though I write a college blog for the magazine.  The methodology is flawed and the rankings sponsor does not try to measure what kind of education students receive at their schools. What I find even more troubling [...]

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