Today's news: A good resource; early admissions
Joanne Levy-Prewitt's "College Bound" column in today's San Francisco Chronicle recommends UCAN-Network.org (University and College Accountability Network) , a tool for comparing and assessing private colleges that she views as far preferable to the controversial U.S. News rankings.
Also in today's Chronicle, an Insight section column headlined Early Admissions Policies Give Children of the Rich an Edge really addresses both overlapping issues: the whole notion of the "early admissions" process, and the various ways wealthy students get special access to the selective prestige colleges.
The book The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, by Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden, emphasizes the latter in far more detail. It would be depressing, except that I've found that the more I learn, the less beneficial it seems to claw one's way into one of the top prestige colleges when there are so many promising options out there.
Also in today's Chronicle, an Insight section column headlined Early Admissions Policies Give Children of the Rich an Edge really addresses both overlapping issues: the whole notion of the "early admissions" process, and the various ways wealthy students get special access to the selective prestige colleges.
The book The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, by Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden, emphasizes the latter in far more detail. It would be depressing, except that I've found that the more I learn, the less beneficial it seems to claw one's way into one of the top prestige colleges when there are so many promising options out there.
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