General Thanks to CC Participants and Best of CC Links

[tokenadult]

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.

[tokenadult]

Here are a few more links I learned about here on CC.

All four-year U.S. colleges now accept ACT test - USATODAY.com

http://www.college.harvard.edu/deans...ASelfStudy.pdf

Five Lies About the SAT | Print Article | Newsweek.com

[isnwta]

wow,,gr8.helpful p'pol like you make cc even more special

[jb12]

This collection should be a part of FAQs

[jb12]

Tufts Syndrome for those, like me, not familiar with a term.

[tokenadult]

This brings to mind some of the FAQ threads that CC participants have built right here on CC. These are good links to know.

Links to the Common Data Sets Posted by Colleges

List of Colleges with Early Action, Early Decision, and Rolling Admissions

How to Impress Adcoms with your Extracurriculars

OFFICIAL Common Application Questions Thread

asking for recommendations

Financial Aid Resources

Preparing for Finaid Applications

Skills Needed in College?

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...ep-advice.html

Abbreviation Thread

Summer Programs That Look Good on College Applications

New Way To Search CC

I've posted a few FAQ threads myself over the years, but these were all posted by other participants.

[tokenadult]

Another interesting link from a College Confidential participant:

Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates by State, Income, and Race/Ethnicity, 1992 to 2022

[tokenadult]

Great link I learned about from another CC participant:

The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education

[DeniseC]

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.

[jym626]

There is also the "revolving threads" thread Revolving Thread Topics- linking the old with the new... with lots of easily accessible threads on topics that come around frequently.

[Shiloh]

Thanks tokenadult - that's a lotta work!

[Johnwill]

wonderful, thank you

[tokenadult]

Here's another link I learned about recently on CC:

The wealth gap on campus: Low-income students scarce at elite colleges - USATODAY.com

[chuy]

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.

[tokenadult]

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.