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Kellogg Sends Acceptance Letters to 50 Rejected Applicants
22 December 08 03:55 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Described as a “technological glitch,” Northwestern University accidentally sent acceptance letters to 50 potential candidates for the school’s Kellogg School of Management , the Chicago Tribune reports (“ Kellogg School of Management Accidentally Sends Read More...

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Admissions and Financial Aid Experts to Offer Live College Financing Advice at Free Online College Fair
08 July 08 08:12 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

CollegeWeekLive, the largest virtual college fair on the Web, will offer students and parents the opportunity this week to interact live and online with a wide range of college planning and financial aid professionals, including admissions counselors, financial aid experts, and advisors from some of the top college financing companies in the industry. Read More...

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Wilkes University Puts Freshman Recruits Front and Center and Billboard-Size
04 May 08 03:56 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Wilkes University, a small, private school in northeastern Pennsylvania, is using a quirky new in-your-face $120,000 ad campaign to get the attention of today’s media- and marketing-savvy students. The university is plastering personalized messages on billboards, pizza boxes, gas pumps, and even on MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to students it wants to make a part of its freshman class. Read More...

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Fewer Foreign Students Seeking Advanced Degrees in the U.S.
16 April 08 08:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The growth rate of international students studying at American colleges and universities has slowed, despite an increase in foreign applications to U.S. educational institutions for the third straight year in a row, according to a recent survey. The 2008 Read More...

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By the Numbers: Top 10 Undergraduate Business Schools
11 April 08 07:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Are you a future MBA who sees yourself building the next Trump–like empire or heading up the new 21 st -century tech giant that will finally unseat Microsoft? If you’re planning on joining the 20 percent of college students who major in business and you’re Read More...

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Can the “Personal Potential Index” Measure What Standardized Tests Miss?
09 July 07 04:48 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The Educational Testing Service may soon offer hope to students who dream about attending graduate school but have difficulty performing well on current standardized tests. Ironically, ETS is doing so by introducing another standardized measurement tool, Read More...

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Goodbye SATs? Achievement-Based Admissions is New Trend in Colleges
10 May 07 05:23 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

By now, many college-bound high school students will have received their college admissions letters and either are overcome with joyful anticipation or overwhelmed with heartbreak. Whatever the case, it is too late for them. Why? Most probably because Read More...

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‘Perfect’ Students Rejected by Top College Admissions’ Offices
13 April 07 04:51 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

This time of year should be one of ecstatic joy and celebration for college-bound high school seniors, as they receive their acceptance letters from the college of their choice after years of sacrifice and excruciatingly hard work. Unfortunately, that Read More...

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