"Dear Graduating Seniors: Apparently you’re hosed."
— Rick Newman: Where the Jobs Are, and the College Grads Aren’t
If you’re not certain what you want to study in college, use this time to research those that sound the most interesting to you. This may save you time and money once you get to college by avoiding the numerous major switches that can plague undergrads.
If you, too, are interested in studying in the United States, it’s important to realize that you will likely have to pay in full for your college education. In 2010-2011, 63.4 percent of international students at any degree level relied primarily on personal or family funds to pay their tuition—money that likely comes as a relief to many cash-strapped U.S. universities. Financial support from U.S. colleges, the U.S. government, private sponsors both in the U.S. and abroad, and international organizations all declined from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011.
While Thanksgiving is celebrated in different ways at various colleges, here are five schools that have created annual traditions for students.
She and her colleagues found that 15 percent of college students in their study reported being bullied and nearly 22 percent reported being cyberbullied.
In addition, 38 percent of students knew someone who had been cyberbullied and almost 9 percent said they had cyberbullied someone else.
Of those who said they’d been cyberbullied, 25 percent said it was through a social networking site, 21 percent through text message, 16 percent through email and 13 percent through instant messages.
The study also found that 42 percent of students said they had seen someone being bullied by another student, 8 percent reported bullying another student, nearly 15 percent had seen a professor bully a student and 4 percent said they had been bullied by a professor.
"I would freak out. I wouldn’t know what to do."
— Michael Conley, a senior at Indiana University—Bloomington, a self-proclaimed social media addict who estimates that he spends 10 hours a day using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, mainly for professional networking and “communicating with like-minded people,” on what he would do if on-campus social media were blocked — Imagining College Life Without Social Media
College administrators say they’re coping with a growing crop of Peters, freshmen suffering the aftereffects of having been raised by overinvolved parents. These moms and dads may see their tendency to hover and help at every step as loving and protective. But the urge to ensure a child’s success by calling teachers to complain about assignments or grades, selecting all activities, and even completing tough homework assignments is apt to lead to failure once independence is required.
| School (State) |
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| Amherst College (MA) |
| Bowdoin College (ME) |
| Carleton College (MN) |
| Claremont McKenna College (CA) |
| Haverford College (PA) |
| Middlebury College (VT) |
| Pomona College (CA) |
| Swarthmore College (PA) |
| Wellesley College (MA) |
| Williams College (MA) |
The scholarship was founded in 1902 upon the death of Cecil Rhodes—a British diamond magnate so wealthy he had an entire country named after him—as the first large-scale international academic exchange program. Its mission is simple but wide ranging: funding prestigious programs of study at Rhodes’s alma mater, University of Oxford, for qualified students from outside the United Kingdom. Each year, regional selection committees pick 32 Rhodes scholars from the United States from a field of around 1,000 applicants; there are 80 Rhodes scholars worldwide each year. Those selected receive tuition and living expenses for at least two years, with a third potentially available depending on programs of study.
Overall, the worst thing that students can do is allow the malaise of so-called “senioritis” that plagues so many in the spring to stretch into the summer and subsequently the fall. Then, the consequences of lethargy could be dire—and expensive.
These schools have the lowest tuition and required fees for out-of-state students.
"As an open source that is not subjected to traditional forms of peer review, Wikipedia must be considered only as reliable as the credibility of the footnotes it uses….But I also tell students that the information can be skewed in directions of ideology or other forms of bias, and so that is why it cannot be taken as a final authority."
— Maurice Hall, Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Villanova University — Wikipedia Gradually Accepted in College Classrooms
There are ways for college students to boost their skills this summer—even without a job or internship.
2. Becoming victim to rapid lifestyle inflation. You’re a recent college grad, so that means you probably need a new car, new apartment, new sofa, and a new… Wait a minute. Not only do you not need all those things, you probably won’t appreciate them much, either. A little theory called the “hedonic treadmill” explains why. We adapt all too quickly to improvements in our lifestyle. That 60-inch television you drooled over at Best Buy will soon start blending in with the rest of your furniture, along with your top-of-the-line coffee maker and pillow-top mattress.
In theory, the lower the student-faculty ratio is, the more access students should have to faculty members in and out of class. When choosing a school, if you place a premium on the amount of interaction you can have with professors, consult this list of the liberal arts schools with the lowest student-faculty ratios.
