A word to schools about post-application surveys
I only got an invitation to fill out one survey, personally: Tufts asked me to fill out a survey explaining why I asked for information and all but then never applied. Yale hasn't sent me anything yet,...
View ArticleGoogle bans ads for essay services: so do I
I know I mark myself by saying that I just got this from Slashdot, but... the BBC reports that Google is going to soon drop ads from agencies which sell essays and papers online. I had a personal...
View ArticleA Word About the Yale Admitted Student Questionnaire
Remember what I said two months ago about a survey Tufts sent me? Here’s the long and the short of it, and this mirrors my experience just with the tufts survey: they are not only very long, but they...
View ArticleFive of Many Reasons Why Yale Should Have an Admissions Blog
In March the Yale Daily News ran a nice little piece about the growing admissions blogging trend nationwide. The key piece in it for me was the news that Yale had no plans to start a blog or similar...
View ArticleMarketing and Sales in College Admissions: A Worrying Trend
I don't think sales and marketing go hand in hand with teaching, and I question whether they are the best match for honesty in college admissions. That's why I'm a little annoyed when I read through...
View ArticleYawn: U.S. News & World Report 2008 embargoed College Rankings Leaked, still...
Our good friends at IvyGate, through what I assume must be great cleverness and sneakery, posted the top 25 overall and top 25 Liberal Arts colleges in the U.S. News' 2008 rankings earlier today. At...
View ArticleDo Looks Matter? Thoughts on the Admissions Office Aesthetic.
Norman Kraft of Zen Writes Inc. keeps a higher education marketing blog called "Zen and the Art of Higher Education Marketing" which I read regularly (or at least as regularly as he posts--happily, the...
View ArticleWhy students keep flunking school sites [Reality Check!]
College websites were rated worse this year than the last--I'm not surprised that this is the ninth straight year of decline, and you shouldn't be either. TargetX is generally pretty spot-on with their...
View ArticleA SamJackson.org scholarship? Plus: college blogging revenue talk
One thing I have always wanted to do is make good use of my split audience. There are students and admissions officers / higher ed professionals--why not have them both work together for mutual...
View ArticleTaking credit, assigning blame for the record number of college applications...
The top two reasons that college applications continue to rise nationwide with such ferocity are: 1. demographic figures, i.e., increasing numbers of high school graduates in the echo boom and 2....
View ArticleWhy can’t Yale recruit low income students? [Pell Grants]
There has been a 14 percent decrease in the number of Yale students getting Pell grants in the last 8 years, according to Pell Institute senior scholar Tom Mortenson study, reports the Yale Daily News....
View ArticleUpdates on SamJackson.org College Admissions / Higher Education Marketing...
At the start of February I announced my desire to organize a scholarship through my site. A little more than a month later, things are really going strong. Here's where things now stand--still working...
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Hello to Yale 2012 from Sam Jackson, Yale 2011
Regular Decision notice for the Yale Class of 2012 comes out this Monday, March 31st. This post is addressed to both the regular decision and early action members of Yale 2012, and is posted on the...
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Yale Admissions Office propoganda watch: palatial student rooms
Or, "It's not lying when admissions office does it" -- Just wanted to quickly highlight something which is not gross lying, but just mild misrepresentation. The Yale Admitted Students website has...
View ArticleThat’s Why I Chose Yale – THE MUSICAL
I will keep this short and focus on the content here, folks, because it's amazing. A few years back I wrote an angry letter to Yale Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel for not being forward-looking enough...
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