Advertise on NYTimes.com Well-Regarded Public Colleges Get a Surge of Bargain Hunters

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

A poll by the center in December showed that "people's anxiety about paying for college is almost at an unprecedented high," Mr. Callan saidstudy us. "We're not sure how they will respond, but we're pretty sure they won't respond by deciding...

Applications to Colleges Are Breaking Records

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

Officials said the trend was a result of demographics, aggressive recruiting, the ease of online applications and more students applying to ever more colleges as a safety net. The swelling population of 18-year-olds is not supposed to peak u...

Study Finds Family Connections Give Big Advantage in College Admissions

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

According to the study, by Michael Hurwitz, a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, applicants to a parent's alma mater had, on average, seven times the odds of admission of nonlegacy applicants. study us Those whose ...

Straddling Sides

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

Last spring, Mr. Thacker announced that he and the organization he founded to promote his ideals, the Education Conservancy, were going into partnership with the College Board. Their joint venture: a Web site, free to users, that would provi...

Early Birds Rise

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

In 2006, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Virginia ended their programs, concerned that they disadvantaged students who need to compare financial aid packages. Officials expressed hope that other schools would join them. study usFew ...

Campus That Apartheid Ruled Faces a Policy Rift

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

Are we here because we're black or are we here because we're intelligent?" asked Sam Mgobozi, 19, a middle-class black student who attended a first-rate high school in Durban and finds affirmative action offensive, study useven as he concede...

A Torrent of College Applications

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

Issues like the role application numbers play in college bond ratings and actual available slots for "unhooked" applicants are rarely discussed among professionals and never discussed with candidatesstudy us. These aspects of college admissi...

Building Adobe WorkflowLab, Part 5: Designing WorkflowLab and max tutorial

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by waqas ahmed)

Finally, the Planning Is Done! The first four parts of this series have discussed the extensive planning involved in the creation of WorkflowLab. max tutorial explained the high-level vision and the first prototype of the user interface. max...

For Students, a Waiting List Is Scant Hope

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by ahmadnai)

M.I.T., which had a 6 percent increase in applicants, increased its waiting list by more than half, to 722. Last year, it accepted fewer than 80 from that list. Yale, which had a slight dip in applications this year yet still admitted fewer ...

Creating Group Work in an Online Classroom Environment

(Sun Apr 3rd, 2011, by Dr Bruce A Johnson)

The online classroom presents unique challenges and opportunities for the process of learning. One of the challenges that instructors face is developing collaboration in this environment. Discussion boards are utilized within most online cla...