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What Elgin, Illinois has over the U of Minnesota

What Elgin, Illinois has over the U of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview will be the setting for the fall 2011 action thriller, Contagion, about doctors fighting a global virus. But the movie won’t be filmed there, the Minnesota Daily reports. Apparently, the movie makers chose Fairview because it’s a well-known metro hospital name, but decided to film the movie in…
by Alex Friedrich

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How not to pad your extracurricular resume

In light of today’s Midmorning conversation on college applications, here’s a New York Times blog piece on lightening the load of extracurricular activities. It’s geared toard college students, but I think the same principle may hold for high-schoolers. Sandhya Simhan counsels overachievers how not to overdo the extracurriculars: The second rule of being successful is…
by Alex Friedrich

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The financial case for early decision

Well this contradicts much of what I’ve read. Robert Massa, vice president for communication at Lafayette College, writes in The New York Times that early decision is misunderstood — and actually a good idea for those needing a lot of financial aid: Here’s what colleges typically don’t make clear: Although early decision is binding, no…
by Alex Friedrich

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Notes in the Margins: Math tests, early applications and the G.I. Bill

WSU math standards confound students Two years after Mishelle Kennedy finished her classes at Wayne State University, she still can’t get her degree. The Royal Oak Township resident is being held up because she can’t pass a math test — a requirement that administrators say is at the level of high school math. While 1,970…
by Alex Friedrich

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How students can earn MN college credit

I just got this from Andrew Allen Anda, a professor in the computer science department at St. Cloud State University, who was listening in to the Midmorning discussion on college applications and essays: Regarding your caller who’s child finished HS requirements 1 year early, there’s the PSEO program where she can take college credits but…
by Alex Friedrich

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College applications on Midmorning

Click below to access the live-blogging “transcript” — complete with links to an article, book and video — for 49-minute conversation on college applications and essays on today’s Midmorning program. http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php/option=com_altcaster/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=81c65bf302 The program: Inside college admissions Broadcast: Midmorning, 12/14/2010, 9:06 a.m. St. Paul, Minn. — Many college applications are due at the end of the…
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A closer look at a winning college application essay

We’ve already seen some winning college application essays, but why exactly did they work? What did they do to snag the attention of the admissions readers? Well, I’ve taken one of them — from Evan Summers, who applied successfully to Carleton College — and asked Carleton’s dean of admissions, Paul Thiboutot, to run through why…
by Alex Friedrich

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