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Do Advanced Placement Courses Give You an Advantage in College?
Does taking Advanced Placement courses in high school give you an advantage once you’re actually in college? To answer that question, The College Board conducted two studies, which shows that students who took A.P. classes in high school fared much...
Read more »Advice from Recent College Grads
USA Today recently did a nice six-week series called “Young & In Debt“, which profiled five recent graduates struggling with high levels of debt just as they are starting out in the world on their own. They were asked to...
Read more »Congress Proposes Pell Grant Increase
Right now, going through the U.S. House of Representatives is a measure that would most definitely help lower-income students: increasing maximum Pell Grants. House Democrats are proposing a $260 increase for the Fall 2007 term, which if implemented would bring...
Read more »Why Women Now Outnumber Men in College
In 2003, there were 1.35 females for every male who graduated from a four-year college, which is almost the complete opposite of the picture in 1960, when there were far more men graduating from college than women. In a recently...
Read more »Cheating on Tests
Cheating on your papers is not the only thing that can land you in hot water. Cheating on exams is highly prevalent amongst students, with some agencies reporting that up to 3/4 of all students cheat at one point or...
Read more »Plagiarism: Not Worth the Risk
It’s the night before your big paper is due, and your friends want you to go out with them. Do you: a) Download a pre-written paper off the net. b) Pull an all-nighter and get it done. c) Ignore it,...
Read more »Snag a Cool Internship
Instead of wasting away your summer vacations, why not make them work for you by getting an internship? While an internship isn’t necessary to get a killer job after graduation, it can’t hurt your chances at all, in fact it’ll...
Read more »Cookbooks for College Students
Sick of meals from a pizza box? Yearning for something different? Then it’s time for you to pick up a college cookbook! Yep, there are cookbooks out there made especially for dorm-dwelling college students like yourselves. Many of them aren’t...
Read more »Congress Cuts Interest Rates on Some College Loans
On Wednesday, Congressional Democrats in the U.S. pushed through legislation which would cut the interest rate on federally subsidized loans to college students. The bill drew large bipartisan support, despite opposition by President Bush and the White House. The bill...
Read more »Traditional Degree vs. Online Degree – What to choose?
When the issue of online degrees comes up, the first question that I always hear is “Are online degrees treated the same way as regular degrees?” To answer that question is not always so easy as it often depends on...
Read more »College Loans are Scary
Unless you’re amongst the lucky few who have been able to finance your college education without the help of student loans, you’ll likely be graduating college with a pretty substantial debt. It’s a sad fact most of the times these...
Read more »College Gear at an Affordable Price
College bookstores tend to carry overpriced products. From the ridiculously expensive textbooks, to the overpriced notebooks, to the expensive t-shirts and apparrel, if you bought it from the college bookstore, you likely got ripped off. If at all possible, avoid...
Read more »Fighting the Freshman 15
Over the years, students have complained about gaining around fifteen pounds in their first year at college, hence the term “freshman 15.” Now whether or not that fifteen pound figure is actually what most student gain remains to be seen. ...
Read more »Big Bowl Round-Up & BCS National Championship
On Monday January 8th, 2007, we’ll see two Division I powerhouses take to the field in the BCS National Championship game. The Buckeyes and Troy Smith, this year’s Heismann trophy winner, go up against the Southeastern Conference Champion Florida Gators....
Read more »Sneaky and Little-Known Ways to Get Credit for Classes
As with anything, there are ways to get around the traditional constraints of academic college life. Instead of actually attending all of your classes for the entire four or five years of your college career, you can learn how to...
Read more »What You Need to Know About Transferring Credits
If you are looking to transfer credits from one college to another, you will want to be prepared. Before you commit yourself to any particular school or program, you should really speak with an admissions counselor. This way, you’ll be...
Read more »All About Accelerated Degrees
For adult students holding down jobs and trying to finish up their college degree, accelerated degree programs are an alluring opportunity that many take advantage of. If you are not an adult student or do not possess any special circumstances...
Read more »Dish Dirt on Your Dorm
Was your dorm room completely unlike the college catalog description? Did you live in luxury for your four-years at college? Dish the dirt on your college dorm experience at Dorm Advisor. At Dorm Advisor, students can register for the site, and...
Read more »Great Websites for Students & Parents
Current students, as well as prospective college students and parents can all benefit from being well-informed about the financial aid process and opportunities, as well as being aware of resources available for further information about higher education. There is a lot...
Read more »Free Pizza, Internships, & Scholarships From Google
Did you know Google supplies free pizza and other Google branded gear to hardworking college students in computer science degree programs? Students who wish to to become a Google Ambassador can sign up here on the Google site. Some of...
Read more »Top 100 Education Blogs
Last week, Online Education Database (OEDb) released a list of the top 100 education blogs as choosen by their staff. Blogs were choosen within the following categories: College, E-Learning, Education News, Education Policy, Internet Culture, Learning, Library & Research, Speciality,...
Read more »Applying to U.S. Graduate School Programs
Remember the fun of filling out college applications, writing cheesy essays, and gathering good recommendations? If you thought that was over with when you got into your undergraduate college, it may not be – if you’re planning on going to...
Read more »How to Handle Roommate Conflicts
Think you’ve got the roommate from hell? You might, or you might be in the same boat as the rest of us. Most of us have (or had) roommates that just down-right annoy the heck out of us. So how...
Read more »Places to Visit, Services to Use on Campus
Despite what you might believe, college doesn’t just provide you with adequately torturous classes to attend, and those cramped dorms to live in. There are other places on campus, as well as services that your school provides, that you should...
Read more »Working While in College
You need to find a job. There’s simply no way around it. You need to finance all or part of your education, or have enough money to feed and clothe yourself. You’ve already thought about the potential impacts on your...
Read more »Self-Study Classes Aren’t for Everyone
If you hate going to class, or constantly find yourself cutting out, you might think that online, tv, or correspondence courses are perfect for you. Afterall, you can do the coursework when it is convenient for you, not when the...
Read more »Online Research Resources for Students
Nowadays, students don’t neccessarily have to trudge down to the library to conduct research for all those lovely papers that their professors expect them to write. Instead, a good majority of their research can now be conducted online. So what kind...
Read more »When your parents want you to do something else: How to deal with it
We’ve heard stories about it many times before: a student who is passionate about music (for example) is being pushed into getting an accounting degree by his or her parents. Or maybe they want him/her to be a doctor, when...
Read more »Winter Break: A Much Needed Escape
Classes should be ending for the semester (or quarter), and if you’re like many students who have gone away to college, you’ll likely be heading back home for the break. Before you head back home and settle in, there are...
Read more »Use Your Student Status to Your Advantage
Most college students aren’t rolling in the dough, and pretty much everyone knows this. Even businesses. And what’s great about that is now they are starting to reward you for being a student by offering up discounts for college ID...
Read more »Excuses You’re Not Going to Get Any Sympathy For
In college, your instructors don’t bug you to do your homework, and your parents aren’t there to make sure you get your homework done before you watch tv? Here, you are all alone and on your own? Failure or success,...
Read more »Dorm Room Cuisine
The semester is winding down, with finals looming (or already taking place) at most colleges and universities, and soon students will presumably be heading back home for winter break and lots of nice, home-cooked meals. But for the time that...
Read more »College Scholarships 101
If you are like most students, you don’t have an extra $20k lying around each year, and you’ll need some help in financing your college education. Your best chance of securing a scholarship (or two, or a few) is before...
Read more »College 101: If you are going to be a smut, be a smut off camera
As mentioned in some former posts (links below) college students live increasingly digital lives, taking pictures of their nights out and posting them on Facebook or Flickr. Well, the secret is out and employers are beginging to Google their applicants. ...
Read more »College 101: guest entry from Ramit of ‘I Will Teach You to be Rich’
Ramit of “I Will Teach You to be Rich” recommended an article from his site to be in our College 101 series. Ramit blogs about being an entrepreneur while teaching his readers about financial savvy. His post “On Greed and...
Read more »College 101: Commuting
I’ve seen it happen to the best of us. We get all excited about going to college and living on campus. A party down the street from your dorm every night? Awesome! … Until you get the bill. Then, you...
Read more »College 101: two tips to prevent being a “Super Senior”
The fifth year college student, or “Super Senior” is becoming more and more common these days. I’m pretty sure that, while the reasons vary, most fifth year seniors are where they are because of mistakes they made as Freshman. Whether...
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