Smartest (and Dumbest) College Towns
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With college bowl season kicking off last night, The Daily Beast crunched the numbers to determine a more prestigious champion: the smartest college town in America. Where does yours rank?
The Campus Suicide Crisis
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
Tuesday's tragic death at NYU was the latest in a rash of student suicides. Kathleen Kingsbury on why it's so hard for colleges to prevent their kids from killing themselves.
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.
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 Cornell students suicidal? Is Dartmouth all Republicans? Is Vassar really gay? Kathleen Kingsbury investigates which college reputations are bunk-and which are well-deserved.
Best Value Colleges
Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
How are families supposed to afford college tuition during the Great Recession? The Daily Beast's Kathleen Kingsbury presents North America's best value institutions of higher learning.
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.
20 Colleges Worth the Price
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 the economy tanking and lending down, who can afford tuition? From low prices to hefty scholarships to creative accounting, Kathleen Kingsbury ranks the schools with the highest marks in value.
Investigative journalist and syndicated columnist Diane Dimond has covered the Michael Jackson story since 1993 when she first broke the news that the King of Pop was under investigation for child molestation. She is author of the book, Be Careful Who You Love—Inside the Michael Jackson Case. She lives in New York with her husband, broadcast journalist Michael Schoen.
Clive Irving is senior consulting editor at Conde Nast Traveler, specializing in aviation—find his blog, Clive Alive, at CliveAlive.Truth.Travel.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
