Will you sprint, stroll or stumble into a career? The path toward independence today for college graduates is quite different from previous generations when jobs focused on manufacturing, and a college degree was not needed for financial success. With the boom in technology in the 1990s, higher education became increasingly more important, leading to an […]
College for the Masses (NYT, April 24, 2015) The pay gap between college graduates and everyone else is near a record high. It’s large enough, over a lifetime, to cover many times over the almost $20,000 in student debt that an average graduate has, notes the education researcher Sandy Baum. Read more
You may already know that acceptance rates at elite colleges are low, but you may also wonder how this downward trend affects the legacy student. In the April 24, 2014 New York Times article, “End College Legacy Preferences,” Professor Evan J. Mandery of John Jay College of Criminal Justice reviews the treatment that many colleges […]
The College Board recently announced major changes to the Scholastic Aptitude Test, better known as the SAT. Read about these changes and how they may affect you in the March 6, 2014 New York Times article: The Story behind the SAT Overhaul
