How to Write a Winning Ivy League Essay
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
With early application deadlines upon us, guidance counselors, professors, and admissions consultants slipped Kathleen Kingsbury seven essays that helped get kids into top schools last year-and she examines exactly what they did right.
More Bogus College Stereotypes
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
Are Reed students junkies? Does Smith turn girls lesbian? In part two of a series, Kathleen Kingsbury investigates eight more college reputations and finds out which ones are off the mark.
Tweeting Through the Pain
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As the college rejection letters pour in, Twitter boards are lighting up, proving brevity can be the soul of agony, too. Plus, view our College Admissions topic page.
With college acceptance and rejection letters hitting mailboxes this week, the economic meltdown has already dramatically changed the game of getting in. Students are transferring to cheaper schools, more parents are bribing the back office, and endowments are plummeting. A crib sheet to the changing rules of college economics.
Dirty Secrets of College Admissions
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
In a Daily Beast exclusive, college admissions officers reveal the shameful truth about the selection process. Rich kids from New York, boring Asian math geniuses, and oboe-playing poets need not apply.
Why Colleges Are Just Not That Into You
Zac Bissonnette is an editor with AOL Money & Finance and its new personal finance site WalletPOP.com. He is a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The charade in which schools solicit more applications than they need-just to improve their selectivity ratings-isn't just underhanded, it's cruel.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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