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More Full Tuition Scholarships from Collegeship.com

2011-11-30T21:49:00.007-05:00

Our mission is to provide students access to financial resources to help them achieve their educational goals.

We use technology to meet the demands of our progressive student body, utilizing the web and e-mail as our primary communication tools. Most important we provide you with 24 hour access to check the status of your financial aid application and view your financial aid award on a schedule that is convenient for you.

Trustee and Presidential Scholarships:

Each year, a very small number of the Arrupe Scholars and LMU Scholarship winners are selected for further recognition, based on truly distinguished and exceptional academic accomplishments. These students are invited to our annual Presidential Preview Weekend in late February, where they have the opportunity to interview with LMU faculty and compete for Presidential and Trustee Scholarships, our most prestigious awards for entering freshmen. On average, ten Trustee Scholars and twenty Presidential Scholars will be selected by the faculty. Presidential Scholars receive $22,500 annually and Trustee Scholars receive scholarship and grant assistance equal to full tuition, room and board for four years.

The Presidential and Trustee Scholarships replace the Arrupe Scholarships or LMU Scholarships for those students selected.

Distinguished students are encouraged to apply under the Early Action program to ensure full consideration for Presidential and Trustee Scholarships.

LMU Named ‘Best Value’ by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

Loyola Marymount University has been named one of the best values among private universities by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance in its annual national rankings. The magazine ranked the top 100 private universities and 100 liberal arts colleges that combine outstanding education with economic value based on financial aid generosity, graduation rates, average graduating debt, and other measures of value.

Kiplinger’s ranked LMU sixth in California and 60th nationwide among all private universities. The rankings were released this week.

Although private schools have a higher price tag than many public schools, the private schools ultimately provide an excellent education at a great rate because of the abundant financial aid options, the magazine said. LMU was notable in that 79 percent of all students receive financial aid. Financial aid packages at LMU average more than $18,300 in need-based aid and more than $10,300 in non-need-based aid.

Among private universities in California, LMU ranked fourth for its student-per-faculty ratio of 11:1, trailing only Caltech, Stanford and USC.

Graduation rates at LMU are 71 percent after four years and 78 percent after five years, another significant factor in the Kiplinger ratings.

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First Full tuition Scholarships for women from Collegeship.com

2011-11-19T17:04:00.004-05:00

We know scholarships are hard to find. Here are a few scholarships just for women. Looking for more full tuition or partial tuition scholarships? Then you know that only one website has a complete index of all full tuition and partial tuition scholarships available: http://Collegeship.com

Belmont University

Servant Leader Scholarship
One full-tuition scholarship for a Baptist Woman

http://www.belmont.edu/catalog/undergrad2010jun/admis_finan/finan/f_aid.html

Marymount University, Virginia

Clare Boothe Luce Scholarship for Women in Science and Mathematics

This competitive scholarship provides women majoring in Biology, Mathematics, or Information Technology (Computer Science specialty) with full tuition and room and board for up to four years. Applicants should be U.S. citizens with a record of high academic achievement and an interest in teaching or research in math or science.

Priority consideration will be given to scholarship applications received by February 1. Later applications will be considered on a funds-available basis.

http://www.marymount.edu/admissions/undergraduate/financialAid/freshAid.aspx

Helen Crider Smith “Women as Leaders” Scholarship – As part of the Schubert Scholars Competition, this scholarship is awarded to an incoming female student who has an outstanding record of academic achievement and demonstrated leadership. It covers full tuition and is renewable for up to three additional years of study. Renewal requires a cumulative GPA of 3.0 (out of 4.0) at the end of the sophomore year, and for each year thereafter.

Schimmel Scholarship – As part of the Schubert Scholars Competition, this scholarship is awarded to an outstanding incoming female student with an excellent academic record and demonstrated leadership ability. It covers tuition, room, and board and is renewable for up to three additional years of study. Renewal requires a cumulative GPA of 3.0 (out of 4.0) at the end of the sophomore year, and for each year thereafter.

http://finaid.owu.edu/meritAid.html

First Full tuition Scholarships from Collegeship.com

2011-11-14T20:44:00.003-05:00

Honors Scholarship

Full tuition paid annually, Laptop computer, and an expense account to cover study abroad expenses, conferences, and events related to your research. Fall Freshmen:
Honor Scholars are also part of the Honors program that is interdisciplinary in nature and comprises honors seminars, honors supplemental courses, an honors thesis, faculty mentoring and attendance at special events each semester.

Mission

York College enriches lives and enables students to grow as passionate, engaged learners with the confidence to realize their intellectual and human potential as individuals and citizens.

Vision

York College will be an academic institution with an excellent reputation for producing high quality students. The Master Plan should guide CUNY and the college toward a transforming facility that allows for that eventuality.

http://www.york.cuny.edu/about

History

The Free Academy was established in 1847 to provide free higher education in the City of New York. In 1961, the City University of New York was established, incorporating the Free Academy and other units under the then Board of Higher Education.

Today the Board of Trustees is the governing entity for The City University of New York, the largest city university system in the world. CUNY is comprised of eleven senior colleges, of which York is one, six community colleges, a graduate school, a law school, a biomedical education school, and a new graduate school of journalism. More than 200,000 students are enrolled at campuses throughout the five boroughs of the City of New York.

On October 24, 1966, the Board of Higher Education of The City University of New York established "Alpha College" as its fifth senior college. Its name was changed to York College by its first president, Dumont Kenny.

York opened its doors in the fall of 1967 in rented space at the Oakland Jewish Center in Bayside, Queens. An entering class of 371 students and a full-time instructional staff of 50 occupied that site for the first academic year. In May of 1968, after hearing presentations from representatives of various Queens communities, the Board determined the permanent location of the College. The successful petitioners were a coalition of business, community and religious leaders advocating for Jamaica, Queens.

While the College awaited its move to Jamaica, it relocated to temporary quarters on the campus of Queensborough Community College, also in Bayside. In September 1971, after holding classes at Queensborough for three academic years, the College moved into a combination of rented and purchased properties in Jamaica. At the same time, Milton G. Bassin began his twenty-year tenure as president. Over the next decade, the College underwent expansive curricular development. While a liberal arts emphasis was maintained, career-related majors in the health professions and business were also instituted. The Office of Continuing Education opened and began addressing the needs of the Jamaica community. In the mid-seventies, New York City's fiscal crisis placed a veil of uncertainty over York's future. In May of 1978, however, the Board of Higher Education assured the permanence of York College, issuing a resolution, which affirmed its construction and mandated its development as a center for the health and business professions in a cooperative education mode, in addition to the liberal arts.

In 1980, Governor Hugh Carey approved the construction of the core campus, participating in the ground-breaking ceremony in December of that year. In September of 1986, the College held its first classes in its Academic Core. At that time the student enrollment was 4,276, the number of faculty was 173 and the College offered 43 bachelors of arts and bachelor of science programs. In September of 1990 the Performing Arts Center and Health and Physical Education facilities were opened, followed a year later by the athletic fields.

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Should student infractions appear on a student's transcript?

2010-09-27T22:01:00.005-04:00

Should detentions and other school infractions be posted on a student’s official transcript?

College is a time for maturing. It is a time in a young person’s life that enables growth through experiences and learning. Everyone makes minor mistakes in their past and it is the hope that students have learned from those mistakes and moved on. Detentions and infractions are definitely something that should be monitored by the high school for each individual student, but it is not something that should show up on a transcript and in the hands of a college admission professional.
Students have a lot on their plate in the 2010’s. The current generation of students are involved with SO many activities that it can be overwhelming at times. We receive activity sheets that are 3 pages long with the amount of extra-curricular work that a student does and it is really astounding sometimes that a student could even have the time to do half of the list. Now bringing this point back to topic, if a student were to get detention for something like being late to school 3 times in a row, but the reason they were late is because they volunteer at a hospital at 630AM every day, then should we really punish this student?
Another thing to note is the disparity in the laws at each high school and what would qualify students for detention. At my high school, students wouldn’t get detention unless they got into a fight or was rude to an administrator of faculty member. At other schools, students can get detention for wearing a shirt that has illicit words or images on it. Again, should a college really dismiss a student because they wore a shirt that said “Budweiser” on it??
Finally, if you were to consider the job application realm and the process through which companies screen their candidates, there is usually a background check component. That background check scans through an individual’s crime sheet and alerts the company before they were to hire an ex-convict. But let us pause for a second and compare apples to apples- do companies request a student’s permanent record from college and check to make sure that their candidate went through college without having to face a judicial report? No, they do not.
From the college point of view, detentions and infractions are serious offenses – at the high school level-but it should not be a determinant in admission to college because a student’s worth is so much higher than one or two detentions and it is the hope of higher education professionals across the country that higher education is an opportunity-an opportunity for a change, for maturity and for growth. Leave the past in the past and let’s continue to bring out the potential in students.

Mike Tarantino, Sacred Heart University.

Don't Ask and They Don't Have To Tell

2010-05-09T21:39:00.002-04:00

“Scored For Life- Why SAT Scores and GPA’s Should NOT be Used Beyond the College Admissions Process”

By Kate Balingit and Dr. Jon Reider, former Senior Associate Director of Admission for Stanford University, and curriculum developer for www.iAdmissions.com, a unique network of former admissions officers providing affordable, one-on-one college counseling.

Asking a potential IRS Employee to disclose his Tax Returns for the past 3 years seems logical, and in many ways imperative, but we should not extend this analogy of relevant disclosure to the realm of standardized test scores or GPA from one’s high school career.

Students get grades and test scores when they are teenagers and young adults. In other words, they get them during one of the most volatile periods of self-transformation. It strikes me as pretty far-fetched to ask an adult in a public position about something that happened 10, 20, or even 30 years ago.
For one thing, grades are hard to interpret; there are dozens of different ways of calculating a GPA, and even those calculations don’t reflect progress over time or the quality of the high school or the quality of the courses the student took. A GPA by itself is essentially meaningless, it simply cannot be understood without a substantial amount of very specific contextual circumstances.

Secondly, standardized test scores are absolutely subject to factors such as family income, level access to education, and quality of high school- all things that we as Americans love to pretend are equal but in reality never are. The score looks like a “real number” but it is really an approximation with respect to a very specific skill set. And no one, including every test-maker, thinks that test scores predict anything more than freshman year grades in college. The “predictive validity coefficient” of the SAT is intended solely for college admissions, so to extend it to something as expansive and diverse as “public service success” would be both foolish and impossible.

Finally, in regards to even using a college GPA as a service benchmark, we must honestly acknowledge that college grading patterns are also very inflated these days, so most college GPAs will appear high when not taken in context.
Frankly, I don’t care what Obama’s grades and test scores were; I care about what kind of job he is doing now. Let’s stay focused and not grasp at illusions masquerading as facts.

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Should Students include video with their college applications?

2010-03-07T22:23:00.009-05:00

Should Students include video with their applications?

To Impress, Tufts Prospects Turn to YouTube
By TAMAR LEWIN

Published: February 22, 2010

Lee Coffin, the dean of undergraduate admissions, said the idea came to him last spring as he watched a YouTube video someone had sent him. “I thought, ‘If this kid applied to Tufts, I’d admit him in a minute, without anything else,’ ” Mr. Coffin said.

For their videos, some students sat in their bedrooms and talked earnestly into the camera, while others made day-in-the-life montages, featuring buddies, burgers and lacrosse practice. A budding D.J. sent clips from one of his raves, with a suggestion that such parties might be welcome at Tufts.

A few students created elaborate productions.

“We’ve got some who are really good with the technology,” Mr. Coffin said. “There’s a real technical savvy out there in this generation, and this lets them show off their splicing, their stop action, their animation. Some of the engineering applicants show us what they’ve made. One kid is talking, and then all of a sudden, he’s in the water, to show off his underwater camera.”

So, what do colleges think?

We asked several colleges to respond, here is what they said:

CB: Video submissions should be allowed IMO, but definitely should not become a required part of the process.

LU: We don't think colleges should add student video submissions this could discriminate students from poorer backgrounds with no filming acces

CA: Sure. What's your take? Are videos hip and fun and helpful, or are they just a distraction?

TT: Tough call, depends on what you are looking for. If the major needs personality, yes. For Elec Engineers not necessary :)

AJ: Video accompanying an application is, IMHO, a great plus. But then the school would have to take time to watch it, which might discourage it

AM: No. Video is too intimidating for the student.

CW: Good Q...is @TuftsUniversity Youtube app paving way for a new form of college app? It certainly gives students a chance to be creative!

SM: As long as it is an OPTION (like Tufts) than I don't see any harm!

HL: Since we're becoming a culture of mass online video, webinars, video confs, etc. it seems like a natural to me.

So, what do you think?

SAT/ACT: Who benefits?

2009-11-04T23:08:00.002-05:00

We asked college and university admission officers what they thought of ending the SAT/ACT exam. Here is what they said.

" Colleges should use the open application, and make the SAT/ACT optional. Better predictors of college success than those tests."
" NEIT doesn't require SAT or ACT...we have a placement exam. However we have a study guide to prepare them."

" No. Although the testing is VERY biased toward affluent white students. Better idea to drop testing as an admissions benchmark."

"Colleges change something as ingrained as SAT/ACT? Probably not in your lifetime. Should they? Maybe, but would it be acceptable?"

" good question - I would agree - Colleges and Universities should look for ways to increase access not limit it (SAT/ACT limits enroll)"

"They should do both."

What do you think?

Helicopter Parents

2009-07-10T13:36:00.004-04:00

We asked colleges around the country the following question:
Is it right to call the parents of high school students helicopter parents given today's complex world?

Normally, we would have a response from our college dean blogger on this issue, but unfortunately she is on vacation. Fortunately, many of the other college representatives from around the country, and others involved with college admission, were available and willing to voice their opinions.

OaktonCollege: more fairly, "helicopter parents" refers to those who intervene on grades, teaching styles, other in-class issues - not application process

apetersen: The college admission process is not the only reason they're called helicopter parents. Though I do see your point.

csuf: Helicopter parents are constantly "hovering," which is different than being helpful when they are needed. Thanks for writing.

GingerCM: Parents can helicopter all they want through the admissions process. It's a problem when they're still hovering through junior year.

JimSix: I think helicopter is used to express the psych. of the parents (customer), not deride or criticize them. Their involvement is a good thing.

ajupresident: Yes, I'm with you on that term...Helicopter Parent...as a parent I want the best for my children so why wouldn't I help in anyway I could?

DruryUniversity: Helicopter parents do more than help students apply. It's those who are involved in the student's life to an unhealthy degree.

YorkGradStudies: These kids become dependent on others & can't make decisions as adults. They need to be empowered on how to think for themselves.

CollegeBoundNet: I don't think the admissions process is that complicated at all. And parents that are too into it are indeed hovering.

MidwayCollege: Whatever sort of parent we get, overbearing or not, they are within their rights to pursue their children's admission in any fashion :)

collegeadvice: The answer is both yes and no. Parents can help, but they should try to put the student first--and not try to live vicariously

What do you think?

Facebook: To View or Not to View

2009-04-27T21:49:00.006-04:00

We asked college representatives the following question: Should parents (or colleges) monitor a high school students Facebook account. Here are their answers:

From Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut:

Facebook and social networking have become more and more popular with high school and college students. In fact, the number of adults who use it has increased substantially over the past year! With all of the new technology and the media weighing in, it is easy for parents to want to check what is going on with their son/daughter's Facebook....who are they talkng with, what do their picutres look like, and what they have posted and will the information hurt their chances to get into college or get a job. These are all valid reasons, however, trust and education must be the norm and not demanding to be on their page unless they decide to make you a "friend". More important, students should remember that their information is out there for the public and some schools may decide to look at it, also other students may use Facebook to learn about their future roommate and may decide they would not make a good match based upon the information and pictures provided. Parents need to weigh in if their son/daugther is spending too much time on Facebook and it is affecting their homework and/or other responsibilities. However, beyond that, Facebook is the students domain and to invade it is taking away a part of their maturing. Instead of trying to have complete access, talk and learn and maybe even set up your own account and ask your son/daughter to be your "friend".

A few other responses from Twitter:

"We certainly do not "monitor" students profile pages. We do encourage students to get involved with social media as a way to connect with us"
"Parents should absolutely monitor until they hit 18/move out. Anyone I hire gets Googled and Facebooked."

"I think parents should monitor their kids fb page. Still debating on admissions officers, there are other programs we use."

"Speaking unofficially, I doubt our admissions officers could monitor FB accts for 5800 new students. As to parents? That's up to them."

"If you say something in the middle of the town square, you really shouldn't be too surprised when someone actually listens."

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