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            <title><![CDATA[So, Who Got In This Year?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A record 3 million applicants can't all get into their first-choice colleges. As acceptance letters go out, Kathleen Kingsbury on the latest admissions news.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tweeting Through the Pain]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the college rejection letters pour in, Twitter boards are lighting up, proving brevity can be the soul of agony, too.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dirty Secrets of College Waitlists]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As acceptance letters hit mailboxes, record numbers of students could be stuck in waitlist limbo. In a Daily Beast exclusive, admissions officers dish about the tricks of getting in off the list.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[No Recession for Applications]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Despite economic woes, record numbers have applied to the nation's top universities, forcing Ivy League schools to adjust their acceptance rates downward.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Worst Year to Graduate Ever?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With laid-off investment bankers snapping up jobs in retail and MBAs barely worth the paper they're printed on, college seniors are approaching graduation day with a mixture of dread and resignation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Year to Bribe Your Way In]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The recession is dramatically changing the college admissions game, as cash-strapped schools court students with ties to big donors. Why it's easier than ever to buy your way in.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why College is a Waste of Money]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Offering admission and financing to virtually every student who wants to enroll in college has resulted in a dropout rate of nearly 50%-and an incredible amount of money down the drain.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[6 New Rules of College Admissions]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With college acceptance and rejection letters hitting mailboxes this week, the economic meltdown has already dramatically changed the game of getting in.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ivy Leagues Tighten Their Belts]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By now, many high school seniors have learned whether they were admitted to the Ivy League of their choice. But will they find grimy dorms and bad food when they get there? Harvard has scaled back its cleaning staff and frozen some faculty salaries,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA["Need Blind" Finds Loopholes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[More than ever, students who are able to pony up their tuition in full have a better chance of getting in the door, say admissions directors and university leaders. With endowments vaporizing, colleges this year are looking for ways around their "need...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rejection Notices Go Paperless]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If Yale University sees that a rejected student has checked their admission decision online, the school will not send them a rejection letter for the first time ever, said the dean of admissions. MIT also eliminated paper rejection letters this year....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[No Application Recession]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Harvard received more than 29,000 applications from prospective students this year - an all-time high. Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown also report jumps in the number of applications received. The result? The most selective schools in the country will be...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[B.C. Cancels Bill Ayers Lecture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Boston College pulled the plug today on a planned lecture by former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers after the surrounding community, stirred up by a local radio DJ, barraged the school with complaints. The town of Brighton, where B.C.'s campus is...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rich Kids Benefit from SATs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For years, there's been grumbling that the SATs, long an iconic college admissions gatekeeper, is biased against poorer students who can't afford the hefty fees that richer kids spend on intensive preparation courses. Before now, the theory was based...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheating Goes Global]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The age-old tradition of students hiring smarter kids to write their papers for them is one more industry gone global, according to an expose in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The magazine goes inside an essay mill-a service that sells...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA["Chance Me" Websites Spring Up]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Call it the new primal scream therapy. On websites like CollegeConfidential.com and MyChances.net, prospective students are posting their high-school stats-GPAs, test scores, transcripts-and asking other students to "chance me," or place odds on their...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Catholics Revolt]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA["Notre Dame has chosen prestige over principles, popularity over morality," reads a petition, 65,000 names long so far, protesting the choice of President Obama as the school's commencement speaker. Obama accepted Notre Dame's invitation-part of a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Colleges Are Just Not That Into You]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The charade in which schools solicit more applications than they need-just to improve their selectivity ratings-isn't just underhanded, it's cruel.]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Zac Bissonnette]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Giving Money to Your Alma Mater Is Immoral]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By helping your old college keep tuition high, you're also helping to keep less-wealthy students out, says our college-sophomore columnist, Zac Bissonnette.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[20 Colleges Worth the Price]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[If Only Wal-Mart Ran My College]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Universities with shrinking endowments need to get creative about raising revenue: put the rare-book collections on eBay and ask the philosophy professors how they'd run the budget.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Moment of Truth]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Prospective students are posting online videos of themselves opening acceptance (and rejection) letters. Witness this Wheaton hopeful's unrestrained joy at learning she's made the cut.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Oprah delivers the commencement address for the Stanford's Class of 2008. In perhaps the most unforgivable commencement speaker faux pas imaginable, Oprah makes their day all about her and hers.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Alternative investments for university endowments, in hindsight, seem like alternatives to sane choices, but David Swenson, the oracle of alternative portfolios, sure seemed like a genius at the time of this lecture.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mike Gravel on Gov. Secrets]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former Senator and Presidential candidate Mike Gravel addresses the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies on war and government secrecy.  ]]></description>
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