Archive for the 'College News' Category

Tartan Today Features Class of 2010

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Tartan Today is currently featuring the college choices of the Class of 2010.

Best Values

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

USAToday and Princeton Review published their list of best value colleges. These college lead the list of public best values: PUBLIC 1. University of Virginia (Charlottesville) 2. City University of New York – Hunter College (New York, N.Y.) 3. New College of Florida (Sarasota) 4. Florida State University (Tallahassee) 5. University of Colorado-Boulder 6. State […]

Big News from Common Application

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

It was announced today that 25 additional institutions will accept the Common Application next year.  Among colleges new to the Common Application are some that often make the college application lists of St. Margaret’s students, such as: University of Michigan Westmont College Columbia University St. John’s College (Annapolis and Santa Fe) University of Connecticut These […]

Worlds’ “Best Universities”

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

The U.S.News and World World Report college rankings started just around the time  I took my first job in college admissions in 1985. I’m not a fan of the rankings and I don’t keep up with them. However, I randomly came across this list which caught my attention. I see a “teaching moment” in this […]

Guest Post: Chris Tokuhama on The College Essay

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Mr. Chris Tokuhama is an admissions officer at the University of Southern California. This is the second piece he’s written for this blog. Here is a link to his first contribution. There is, quite possibly, nothing like seeing someone finally get it. I sat across a desk and watched as the student in front of […]

Chris Tokuhama: USC Admissions

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Ms. McColgan and I asked select college admissions colleagues to submit guest posts to this blog because we want you to hear their voices. Our friend and colleague Chris Tokuhama sent in this entry. Chris is in his fifth year with the Office of Admission at the University of Southern California and also studies the […]

SOS Classroom

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Students in an advanced writing class at USC created an online summer school for students in Los Angeles public schools whose summer school classess were cancelled because of the State’s budget crisis. The project, called SOS Classroom, gathers and organizes educational web resources that K-8 grade students can use to enhance their learning over the […]