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Global Campuses, Dual Degree and Joint Degree Programs: What You Need to Know

Top Tier Admissions

Interested in adding an international perspective to your college education? These days, your options extend well beyond a semester abroad with exciting options for joint and dual degrees with top universities in the U.S. and around the world. These programs typically offer a broad range of academic choices and the opportunity to acquire direct knowledge of two distinct cultures.

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50 Best Colleges for Physics – 2024

College Transitions

Ready for courses like Analytical Mechanics, Medical Radiation Engineering, Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, and General Physics: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Modern Physics? Majoring in physics is an extraordinarily rigorous enterprise as it requires students to be strong in math, chemistry, and, of course, physics itself.

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Key Themes from the 2020-2021 Recruitment Cycle

Scoir

This article is based on a series of conversations we had with Scoir Partner Colleges in 2021. While this content is specific to recruitment themes during the 2020-2021 academic year, the themes presented in this article are still relevant today. In January 2021, we met with some of our Partner Colleges to discuss their biggest challenges and successes in admissions over the past year as they shifted to virtual recruitment with limited travel, no campus visits, budget reductions, and adapted to

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Best Outdoor Adventure Summer Programs — 2024

College Transitions

Daydreaming of spending your summer—or at least part of it—testing your limits in the great outdoors? Is a longing for adventure baked into your identity? Alternatively, are you a self-proclaimed glamper looking to push yourself out of your comfort zone?

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Dr. Lowe’s Simulated-Mock BS/MD Admissions Committee

Dr. Paul Lowe – Admissions Expert

Dr. Lowe continually reviews, reassesses and builds/rebuilds his clients’ admissions profiles to application completion by using a Simulated/Mock Admissions Committee approach using his team, former admissions officers, and alumni/student networks. With DIFFERENT perspectives, he evaluates (and re-evaluates) his clients’ applications (prior to submission) and therefore increase their chances of acceptance to top BS/MD programs.

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10 Famous Sonnet Examples + Their Meaning Explained

College Transitions

These days, poets are more likely to be rule breakers than rule followers. Pick up a collection of contemporary poems at your local bookstore (which we highly recommend doing!), and you’ll find that very few poets are consistently following formal patterns of rhyme and meter.

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Applying to Columbia as a Student Athlete

The Koppelman Group

Columbia College of Columbia University is an Ivy League research university in the heart of New York City. It’s a top school, in a top city, on top of a hill on the island of Manhattan — basically the top of everything. There are 6,700 undergraduate students between Columbia College and Columbia Engineering. The student body is comprised of many of the best students in the world, and many of the best athletes including 46 Olympians, 16 NCAA Championship Teams, 60 Individual NCAA Champions, and

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Bay Path University & Cambridge College Discuss Their Merger

Enrollify

Visionary Voices, the College President's Playbook Welcome to a particularly enlightening episode of Visionary Voices , a show dedicated to giving a voice to college presidents as they navigate the complexities of higher education leadership. In today’s episode, titled "Presidential Perspectives: Bay Path University & Cambridge College Discuss Their Merger," we are joined by two distinguished guests, Dr.

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50 Best Colleges for Philosophy – 2024

College Transitions

Are you someone who is comfortable “living in the gray,” where sometimes no right or wrong answers exist? If so, philosophy may just be an ideal major for you.

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Embracing Leadership and Marketing in Higher Education: Insights from Jenny Petty and Carrie Phillips

Enrollify

In the debut episode of Pulse Check - Learning From Leaders Part 1 , host Carrie Phillips , Chief Communications and Marketing Officer at UA Little Rock, is joined by Jenny Petty , Vice President of Marketing, Communications, Experience, and Engagement at the University of Montana. Together, they explore the intricacies of leadership in the marketing domain within higher education.

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50 Best Colleges for Political Science – 2024

College Transitions

Political science is a popular and useful undergraduate major that can lead to successful careers in business, finance, government, journalism, or academia.

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2024 Wait List Planning

UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

Due to the challenges that every college is facing because of the delay in FAFSA data being sent to colleges (including UGA), the 2024 Wait List process will be different from prior years. First, the deposit deadline for International and Out-of-State students will be May 1, but for In-State students, who are more impacted by the need-based financial aid delay, we have extended the deposit deadline to May 15.

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Recordings from the 2024 PK-12 Virtual Enrollment & Marketing Summit

Niche

Whether you missed the 2024 Virtual Summit or loved it so much that you want to binge-watch every session again, we’ve got you covered. Staying on top of ongoing changes in PK-12 marketing, communications and admissions can be a huge challenge, but we’re bringing you actionable insights, tips and strategies from this year’s carefully-selected group of industry experts.

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USC Cancels Main Commencement Ceremony Citing Safety Concerns

BestColleges

USC announced it is canceling its main commencement ceremony due to new security measures. Individual school ceremonies will continue with added security precautions and a ticketing system. The decision follows protests on campus demanding that the university divest from Israel. The university previously announced that the Class of 2024 valedictorian would not speak at the main ceremony, citing substantial risks relating to security.

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Senators Call for Ban of Automatic Textbook Charges

BestColleges

Institutions can automatically charge students for textbooks and other course materials. A group of senators are now calling on the White House to ban this practice unless a student opts in. President Joe Biden says new regulations are forthcoming. Colleges and universities have the power to automatically deduct the cost of textbooks from a student's financial aid, but a group of senators hopes to change that.