U.S.News & World Report Tumblelog

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.

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.

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.