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42 votes
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$1 billion donation will provide free tuition at a Bronx medical school
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Inventing the perfect US college applicant – For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait
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Why everyone hates this concrete building, and why brutalism dominates US college campuses
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An investigation of the facts behind Columbia’s US News ranking
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Should AI be permitted in college classrooms? Four scholars weigh in
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Advice on choosing a class to take to meet scholarship requirements
I am currently frustrated with having to pick another 2 hours of classes to take to maintain eligibility of a scholarship. I can't take any more major (CS) related classes, as I do not have all...
I am currently frustrated with having to pick another 2 hours of classes to take to maintain eligibility of a scholarship. I can't take any more major (CS) related classes, as I do not have all the prerequisites. I can't take any lower core classes as I have finished them all, from getting my general ed AA degree first. There are little filler electives I can take. One of them being first aid, a class that everyone says I need to take. However I do not want to take that class, it will be online and I had that professor for another online class last semester. I did not like the class at all. It was a read the textbook and answer the questions kind of class with no professor interaction at all. I think the first aid class will be exactly like that as well. There are some 1 hour classes I could choose from, however that would mean 2 more classes to juggle just to meet scholarship requirements. I am frustrated with this for multiple reasons, I'm indecisive, I've been putting it off all summer, and classes will start back very soon (aug 24th). I have tried talking to my family about it, but it ends up being a "you need to get this done" or a "just take the first aid course". They make choosing a class sound so simple when it is not as other stuff to juggle through. With it being so late it adds even more problems, as classes are filled up and deadlines are soon.
Does tildes have any advice about this? Anything you want to comment or add?
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Study of elite US college admissions data suggests being very rich is its own qualification
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Nine tips on community college
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US Supreme Court strikes down race-based admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina
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Any Tildes users in college? Dorm or off-campus living for the first year?
I’m attending college this fall and moving cross country for this move. I wanted to ask everyone who’s currently in college or graduated not too long ago on whether if it’s worth it to stay...
I’m attending college this fall and moving cross country for this move. I wanted to ask everyone who’s currently in college or graduated not too long ago on whether if it’s worth it to stay on-campus in the dorms.
I heard you get assigned a roommate and some dorms, depending on which one you get, can have 1-3 additional roommates.
I’ve always had my own room and the closest thing I’ve had to a roommate was my little sister…but she had her own room as well.
I know staying on campus it’s easier to get to class and I get to live the traditional college experience. I don’t mind having a roommate but I heard if you have a shitty one, it’s not gonna be fun.
The perks of having your own apartment you get the ability of having your own space and doing whatever you want with no dorm monitors right? Only downside is paying rent?
If you have any insight or experience to share I'd love to hear them! 🙏
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The rise of the "trauma essay" in college applications | Tina Yong
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My college students are not ok
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US lawsuit says sixteen elite colleges are part of price-fixing cartel
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As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it
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I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
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Becker College (Worcester, Massachusetts) closing its doors
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If the US Federal Government was to stop issuing student financial aid to private colleges and universities, what would be the impact to those institutions?
Posted this over on r/highereducation, thought it might be interesting here. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially in the context of "free college" proposals. Subsidizing private...
Posted this over on r/highereducation, thought it might be interesting here.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially in the context of "free college" proposals. Subsidizing private colleges and universities would be a political non-starter. I'm assuming the government would have a "teach-out" style plan to transition schools off federal dollars. Regardless, the impact would be massive. I've briefly glanced at financial aid and revenue data for one R1 school, and it seems federal money makes up a significant (20-30%) portion of annual operating revenue. While that doesn't seem like much at first, I suspect enrollment would drop significantly at many schools if there was the alternative of going to a public university for free. Several thoughts come to mind:
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What percent of schools would close or merge?
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What would be some of the most surprising schools to close?
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How quickly would schools close? Would they immediately shutter, close at the end of the transition period, or struggle on for a few years?
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What is the breakdown of institution types (R1/2 vs SLAC vs engineering schools)?
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What would be the impact on religiously-affiliated colleges, especially Catholic schools (there's already many little-known ones in the middle of nowhere)?
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Of the schools that survive, what sort of strategies would they employ to remain solvent (lean heavier on foreign students, reduce admissions standards, have mandatory work-study programs to reduce administrative costs, create alumni contracts akin to tithing, invest more in the financial sector/Wall Street)?
Edit: Whoops, I thought I posted this in ~misc. Oh well.
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Defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness
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Is college still worth it?
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The enduring relevance of college radio
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America will sacrifice anything for the college experience
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“I feel that the future I’ve been working towards my whole life is gone now” — What United States college students have to say about the coronavirus
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College newspaper reporters are the journalism heroes for the pandemic era
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The pandemic is no excuse to surveil students
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Colleges face student lawsuits seeking refunds after coronavirus closures
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The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sues Betsy DeVos over “reprehensible” new sexual assault rules
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How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
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Michigan Governor Whitmer announces plan for free college tuition for front-line workers battling coronavirus
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Biden’s free-college plan is a solution in search of a problem
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Small colleges were already on the brink. Now, coronavirus threatens their existence
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Joe Biden adopts part of a tuition-free public college proposal as a nod to US progressives
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Cost Matters: Why Lambda School should have a lower success rate than college
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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
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What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
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It’s time for Black athletes to leave White colleges
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Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
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Exploring a Detroit abandoned college
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A transgender man in Tennessee was suspended from his Christian college just hours after getting top surgery
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College financial-aid loophole: Wealthy US parents transfer guardianship of their teens to get aid
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The revenge of the poverty-stricken college professors is underway in Florida. And it's big.
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Schools are using software to help pick who gets in. What could go wrong?
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Increasingly competitive college admissions: much more than you wanted to know
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The corporations devouring American colleges
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All-male historically Black Morehouse College will admit transgender men
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Elite colleges constantly tell low-income students that they do not belong
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Major for-profit college chain abruptly announces closure of dozens of schools
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The myth of a campus free speech crisis
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Instagram is testing virtual communities for college students
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