College Application Advice

There’s a post on “The New York Times’” “The Choice” blog by Jordanna Suriani, an admissions counselor at Ramapo College of New Jersey, that we sincerely disagree with. Alright, we don’t disagree with everything she writes, but we do disagree with a whole lot of it. Ms. Suriani asserts that … 

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Assistance with College Applications

The authors of the bestselling and controversial “Freakonomics,” Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, point out an interesting study by Christopher Avery on students who get assistance with college applications. In a study in which low-income high school students who were high achievers in the classroom were provided college counseling, the … 

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