By Russell Olwell
For most college and university faculty, recruitment and admissions are a black box. We see the students who are admitted and enrolled in our classrooms, we read statistics about those students (GPA, SAT, ACT) but we do not have a lot of contact with the process itself. Outside of major lawsuits or referenda […]
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In a session on “Understanding and Engaging the International Student,” representatives from Hobsons, a student recruitment and enrollment management firm, presented data from a 2006 survey of about 28,000 prospective international students worldwide. The survey looks at such questions as why students wish to study abroad, their perceptions of various English-speaking destinations and why some […]
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It is quite common for students to seek admission to 4 year institutions for visa purposes and transfer out to a community college or a less expensive college after their first semester.
There is the perception that a student visa to attend a 2 year community college would be rejected.
These students, thus obtain a student […]
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It is quite common for students to seek admission to 4 year institutions for visa purposes and transfer out to a community college or a less expensive college after their first semester.
There is the perception that a student visa to attend a 2 year community college would be rejected.These students, thus obtain a student […]
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The heartbreak of achievement
BY TOM BOTTROF
Q. I’m a senior in high school and I’ve been accepted to U.C. Berkeley this fall. My parents don’t know how we’re going to pay for college. I didn’t get any scholarships. Is there any chance Cal will give us a break?
A. Sadly, many families find themselves in this situation. […]
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The heartbreak of achievementBY TOM BOTTROF
Q. I’m a senior in high school and I’ve been accepted to U.C. Berkeley this fall. My parents don’t know how we’re going to pay for college. I didn’t get any scholarships. Is there any chance Cal will give us a break?
A. Sadly, many families find themselves in this situation. […]
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Some of the Candidates applying for MBA in Top Schools have already completed a MBA in their home country. It should be kept in mind that some of the schools do not like candidates to go for a second MBA.
The schools which do not accept candidates having an earlier MBA are :Cornell University, JohnsonDartmouth […]
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Some of the Candidates applying for MBA in Top Schools have already completed a MBA in their home country. It should be kept in mind that some of the schools do not like candidates to go for a second MBA.
The schools which do not accept candidates having an earlier MBA are :Cornell University, JohnsonDartmouth […]
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2007/5/28PALO ALTO, California, APDays after discovering a woman posing as a student, Stanford University officials have discovered a second impostor who managed to pass herself off as a member of the campus community for months.
Elizabeth Okazaki had made herself at home in Stanford’s Variant Physics Laboratory, where she used computers, attended seminars and sometimes spent […]
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UCLA tweaks its admissions process to stop the black student enrollment decline
By Samantha Levine
Posted 5/27/07
It was a self-described crisis. In the fall of 2006, only 103 black students said they planned to enroll as freshmen at the University of California-Los Angeles. That’s the lowest black enrollment in 30 years—just 2 percent of the flagship public […]
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