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limner
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 02:03 pm |
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Carolyn, I wasn't sure exactly where to put this, so please move it if I goofed.
The New York Times' Education supplement is all about colleges, with such articles as "Redrawing the College Map," about which states are "hot" and which are not; and "Off the Beaten Path," about 20 often overlooked schools (not by the people on this list, however.
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2006/07/30/education/edlife/index.html
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 03:00 pm |
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Thanks for taking the time to provide the link Limner! I also mentioned it in the "What colleges are right for my child?" section, but I think I will leave your link here as there is some valuable information in the supplement.
By the way, the New York Times Education Life Supplement, which primarily covers colleges and college admissions, comes out several times a year. Perhaps we can use this thread to link to it each time a new issue comes out.
Carolyn
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Lderochi
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 03:08 pm |
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| Good article on overlooked schools, with one glaring exception -- where the $%(# is the South?? Golden State, the West, Midwest, the Northeast and then the article is over? What's up with that?
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limner
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 03:16 pm |
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| I had the same thought. What about Rhodes? University of the South? Elon? New School of Florida? And I know there are a lot of others. I guess they didn't want to do "25 Overlooked Gems."
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 03:31 pm |
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limner wrote: I had the same thought. What about Rhodes? University of the South? Elon? New School of Florida? And I know there are a lot of others. I guess they didn't want to do "25 Overlooked Gems."
Ditto on the South!
Davidson, W&L, Richmond, I could go on as well.
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DesperateDad
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 05:58 pm |
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Just like in all college team sports rankings (football, basketball, softball, baseball, etc.), nearly all publications are based in New York, New York. Of course, there is an east coast bias....it goes for USNews, the NYT, espn, Sports Illustrated -- just name it. That's why sites like this are so helpful bcos collectively we bring our own diversity of knowledge of local schools that remain under the radar of the New York City elite! 
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limner
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 06:24 pm |
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Still, when they have the sections "Golden State," "Pacific Northwest," "Cowboy Country," "Northern Plains," "The Midwest," and "The Northeast," that leaves a big hole where the Southern U.S. used to be. 
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 06:50 pm |
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I was upset about the Southern colleges being left out, too. That's pretty much the only place my S is looking and I was eager to see what they had to say. But their article entitled "Southbound" does go into some detail about a couple of the Southern schools (particularly Elon and Davidson). I didn't see a link to it on the college page but Carolyn linked to it in her message. I was kind of surprised that the author referred to "Miami University" in Coral Gables, FL.
Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/education/edlife/south.html?ref=education
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CarolynLawrence
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Posted: Sun Jul 30th, 2006 10:38 pm |
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PatsMom, good catch on Miami University. That would put them about 2,000 miles north in Ohio, not Florida. 
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Posted: Mon Jul 31st, 2006 05:27 pm |
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| And I too was sorry to see places like Carleton "outed", but whatever. We can't expect the knowledge here to stay here. Still, it helps for the day when our children might be asked where they go to college and they don't say HYPS. At least the country may start to stand down from its relentless focus on the brand vs. the actual education.
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Posted: Mon Jul 31st, 2006 09:17 pm |
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| This just allows some "hidden gems" to remain hidden!
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patsmom
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Posted: Mon Jul 31st, 2006 10:06 pm |
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I found the charts on EA/ED acceptance percentages very interesting and I like the way they were broken down by Applicants/Acceptances/Enrollment. It's cool to see which schools give a real boost to early applicants and which don't.
Also, what's with the low percentages for Furman and Wofford in the Early Decision Enrollment column? If ED is binding, how can they have such low enrollment -- Wofford is 47%, Furman is 71%! Do that many kids back out of ED because of finaid packages? Or is something else at work?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/education/edlife/30edlife_data.html?_r=1&ref=edlife&oref=slogin
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Posted: Mon Jul 31st, 2006 10:48 pm |
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| Can't speak to Wofford, but Furman's ED is very unusual in that it is more like EA -- you have a certain amount of time after acceptance to accept the ED admit.
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