When I asked a faculty member at one of America’s most elite colleges what he thought of the students who ended up in his classes he said the were really smart and hard working and always produced excellent work. “Professor Doe” also added that they never pushed back at him in class and revolted when…
News and notes from Berkshire College Advising
There’s a life-changing college and university experience waiting for every type of student. From the supremely smart high achiever, to the solid A-/B- student, to the late bloomer, there’s a wealth of colleges to choose from. Berkshire College Advising of Amherst Mass. works to match students to the right college by helping them engage in self-assessment, mastering the subtleties of the application/admission process, and making a choice based on the student’s own well thought-out priorities.
University of Rhode Island
Rhode Island is one of those “you never hear anything about…” states, and the state’s flagship university flies under the radar not just of nearby academic powerhouses U Connecticut and U Massachusetts, but also of slightly farther away hipster-heaven U of Vermont. Nevertheless, URI is on a pretty serious trajectory. It’s already highly respectable engineering…
The New College Admissions Scam
A new admission scandal is brewing and this one may prove to be a doozy. ProPublica is reporting that well-to-do parents of students at the University of Illinois have been advised to relinquish custody of their children to relatives in order to have their children considered emancipated (i.e orphans) thereby qualifying them for full financial…
BU-University of Commonwealth Avenue
Boston University has made the transition from a somewhat regional pre-professional university to a national research powerhouse in a matter of decades. This mid-size (17,000 students) urban university’s undergrad program is divided into ten distinct colleges: arts &sciences, fine arts, hospitality administration, communications, engineering, education & human development, health & rehab sciences, global studies, business…
Boston College: the best of the Jesuits.
Just to get the architecture part out of the way, Boston College is a feast of neo-Gothic design. It’s an imposing aesthetic. Every building (most are massive) is so well-maintained its hard to discern if any given building is 100 or ten years old, even allowing room for the occasional 1960’s clunker. Awash in stained…
University of Tulsa. The Olin of the Bible Belt.
Traditionalists are having a case of the vapors over what’s happening to the University of Tulsa. With 4,000 students and an endowment of over a billion dollars, this fabulously wealthy small college should be able to ride out demographic change and the decline of interest in the humanities and the arts . But the folks…
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