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Because simple charts are more efficient than most economies these days.Read: What a joint business and law degree gets you

A fascinating new study reveals that Americans are more likely to call their children "intelligent," while European parents focus on happiness and balance. Here's why.

Our brightest poor students are overwhelmingly unlikely to apply to our best schools, and it's bad news -- for social mobility, for economic growth, and for income equality.

When she graduated from her high school in Pittsburgh last spring, Mikaela Molstre didn’t follow her classmates to college. She went to Africa instead and worked in an orphanage.

That convinced her that she wanted to become a social worker, and this month Molstre is beginning as a freshman at Cedarville University, a Christian college in Cedarville, Ohio.

“There is definitely a little anxiety” about starting school in January and not August, Molstre says. But that was better than going to college with no idea of what she wanted to do.

 

This is an essay I have used in workshops for many years.

Questions:
When you read this essay did you laugh?

Why?

If you did laugh, What does this say about you, given that this college essay describes the death of a loved one?

Do you think this is the 'voice' the author usually uses with his friends?

"The real crisis in American higher education is that our best colleges never see a large chunk of our smartest students.

In an important recent study, the economists Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Averyfound that very few high achievers from low-income families ever apply to top colleges, and that the missing applications from these kids largely explain why they’re underrepresented at our leading universities.

At first glance, poor students’ reluctance to aim for the Ivy League might seem to make sense. After all, there’s no way the typical low-income family can afford tuition of $50,000 a year. But in reality, they don’t have to pay anything for these schools.

Two of Occidental's admission counselors join Oswald the Tiger on a trip to Ojai to hand-deliver an acceptance letter to Frank, an Early Decision I candidate...

I graduated from high school in 1977 (I'm 54...to save you the math).  Up until then, I had lived my whole life in Dubuque, a great place to be from, and a city that is probably in better shape tod...

Making just a slight score improvement on the ACT test can help a student earn a larger scholarship at some schools including Indiana University.

If you send grades to colleges for classes that aren't on that list of classes, colleges are surprised -- and we're not talking the "I was hoping for a Civic for my birthday but got a Maserati" kind of surprised.

Now you'll be able to answer when someone asks you about the most popular college majors or perhaps what the most popular degree is for women versus men.