Your student didn't apply to a certain college because it was "unreachable" to get in. Well, surprise, surprise! There's an opening. Maybe there are 2 openings, maybe five. Last year, over 200 colleges had openings for qualified students for the Fall semester.
How could this happen?
It's because a whole lot of deposits didn't show up by the May 1st deadline from students who were accepted, and the school miscalculated how many deposits were coming in.
If you didn't send in your deposit, you may have left a vacancy at that college, and the college needs to fill all vacancies. It's a hotel vacancy mentality at the height of the tourist season that's driving the college bean counters to work a little overtime.
Many colleges will call local high schools to see if there's a student who wants to come. It's all very quiet, and they don't make public this little deficiency in their accounting. So they go to the web sanctuary of their mistakes that is commonly referred to as the National Association of College Admissions Counselors.
On this website, you can look up to see which colleges have vacancies in each State. You may be surprised at the familiar names on the list.
Before you go to: NACAC's Space Availability Survey Results, you may have to wait a few more days before the list is complete since not all schools will post their vacancies at the same time.
Be the first to know that the "first" list is posted now: NACAC's Space Availability Survey Results
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
College-Bound Teens Are Getting The Wrong Signal
The Boston Globe had an article in their recent Sunday edition on the new dorms that are going up at Boston University at the cost of 125 million dollars. Read: Plush, plush, and more plush.
To what end and what's the real cost?
To read what BU officials say, you'd think that their students are coming from overly pampered homes that require a smooth transition to an equally pampered environment. Apparently the function of our elitist schools is to plant early the seeds of narcissism, self-absorption, and entitlement.
What's the $50,000-a-year signal that's being sent to these kids?
Life isn't hard.
To what end and what's the real cost?
To read what BU officials say, you'd think that their students are coming from overly pampered homes that require a smooth transition to an equally pampered environment. Apparently the function of our elitist schools is to plant early the seeds of narcissism, self-absorption, and entitlement.
What's the $50,000-a-year signal that's being sent to these kids?
Life isn't hard.
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