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| General Thanks to CC Participants and Best of CC Links
I thought I'd say a general thank you here after four admission seasons on College Confidential to the many participants who post helpful information on CC forums. More and more these days when I Google for information on any aspect of selecting colleges, applying to colleges, or parental dealing with college applicants, I find threads on CC prominently listed in my Google search results. One great thing about CC is the very civil and constructive atmosphere here, based on the carefully crafted Terms of Service http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...q_new_faq_item
and the efforts of the great majority of participants to live by the spirit and letter of those. Another great thing about College Confidential is the large number of helpful links to external static content that can be found here. I thought I'd celebrate what I've learned by reading CC by posting some of my favorite links here, all of which (according to my best recollection) I learned about from other CC participants. Glancing over my browser bookmarks and posting in no particular order, here are some links I learned about from other CC participants, which I now to post to share with you as I express my thanks to them. http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_dow...rimer-2004.pdf EFC Calculator: How Much Money for College Will You Be Expected to Contribute? What Financial Aid Is Available? http://www.nationalmerit.org/Merit_R&I_Leaflet.pdf QuestBridge Home Page EdTrust - College Results Online SSRN-A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities by Christopher Avery, Mark Glickman, Caroline Hoxby, Andrew Metrick College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) - Changes to Race/Ethnicity Reporting to IPEDS National Student Clearinghouse: Degree verification & enrollment verification MIT Admissions | Blog Entry: "Many Ways To Define "The Best"" College acceptance rates: How many get in? - USATODAY.com http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ff0615S.pdf gladwell dot com - getting in http://cepr.uoregon.edu/upload/Gates...0Readiness.pdf Reason Magazine - Legacies of Injustice Faculty Senate minutes - April 20, 2006 meeting SAT Data Tables MIT Admissions | Blog Entry: "What's the big deal about 40^2?" PSAT/NMSQT: If You Missed the Test University of California - Admissions - The University of California offers one of the broadest ranges of study of any institution of higher learning in the world, all at an affordable price.
And there have been many more. What are some of your favorite external links? It would be good to post them here, to thank the CC participants who first shared them. | 
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05-06-2008, 09:32 AM
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05-06-2008, 11:19 AM
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| wow,,gr8.helpful p'pol like you make cc even more special | |
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05-06-2008, 12:17 PM
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| This collection should be a part of FAQs | |
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05-09-2008, 12:25 PM
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| Tufts Syndrome for those, like me, not familiar with a term. | |
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05-09-2008, 01:27 PM
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05-27-2008, 08:51 AM
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05-27-2008, 09:25 AM
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| Thanks!!!
This is a great compilation and should be stickied in a more prominent forum (college admissions?). I found it through New Posts.
I learned about Common Data Sets, IPEDS, questbridge and much much more on CC. | |
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05-28-2008, 07:18 AM
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| Thanks tokenadult - that's a lotta work! | |
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05-28-2008, 07:31 PM
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| wonderful, thank you | |
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05-29-2008, 08:43 AM
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05-29-2008, 09:01 AM
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| If there were a single link that had all of the Academic Common Market type programs (theres a name for that type of program but I can't remember it) that'd be really helpeful. | |
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05-29-2008, 09:19 AM
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| Hi, chuy,
It appears you are the OP on this thread Your Semi-annual Academic Common Market Thread (IN STATE TUITION)
which shows your interest in that issue. I'll keep my eye out for that. Thanks for forming the FAQ thread here. | |
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