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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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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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Seeing the World as Generation WWW: Mindset List Zeroes In On What It Means to Be 18
30 August 07 10:54 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Who needs a time capsule when Beloit College does all the work for you? The college in Beloit, Wis., doesn’t squirrel away any buried nostalgia, but it will help remind you of the world you came from. Its popular mindset list , which runs down the trends, Read More...

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Oh, When the Men Come Marching In
28 August 07 01:40 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Hurt by falling enrollment numbers and poor management of its endowment, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Va., has changed its name: It’s dropped the hyphen. Oh yeah, and the part that reads it’s just for women. For the first time in its 115-year Read More...

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America’s “Best” Colleges of 2008: Strategies for College-Bound Students to Compose Their Own List
23 August 07 04:00 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Once again, U.S. News & World Report ’s latest ranking of colleges and universities received hordes of criticism and its yearly flogging from university presidents and officials who take issue with the magazine’s grading system. Even despite the effort Read More...

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Creativity, Practicality and Wisdom—The New Face of Admissions?
13 July 07 06:33 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Like the Educational Testing Service, which is piloting a new “Personal Potential Index” (discussed in our July 9 blog) that’s designed to evaluate a college applicant’s non-academic strengths and weaknesses, Tufts University has rolled out a pilot admissions Read More...

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