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With competitions increasing for college admissions and with more and more student application forms, colleges are being scrupulous with their admissions.

Audrey Kahane is a college counsellor and report to The Acorn what is changing in College Admissions. The first thing she reports is the changes between the new SAT test compared to the old one, commenting how it is closer to what an ACT test looks like.

Coming from the dailymail, an article is stating that Studying at a prestigious university won’t necessarily earn you more cash or increase your chances of landing employment. Comparisons with smaller universities show that job landing and pay does not differ greatly between students coming from big universities and students coming from smaller ones.

The Independent has released has release a list of 24 Institutes rated best in the World. Of the top 24, 16 are in US soil, and 6 in the UK, with one entry each for Canada and Switzerland. Some of these include University of Edinburgh (UK), London School of Economics (UK), and Carnegie Mellon University (US) to name the last coming finalists.

The Huffington Post has released a list of top 7 STEM Summer Programs prior to college admission. STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) programs are born to prepare students for College, and are held over one summer in order to deepen the student’s knowledge.

Dylan Parker, a Pittsford 12th-grader was not able to make it into Princeton. But unlike stepping backwards and giving up, he is now admitted to the other 7 Ivy League Universities.

Top US Universities join the fight against the State Department security proposal to ban international students from “research projects and classes involving information seen as vital to national security”. The coalition is formed by top Universities such as Stanford, MIT, University of Pennsylvania and other 62 US institutions.

Symbols of the modern admission procedure in the US, SAT and ACT seem to be playing a major role for university recruitment. But does it really matter?

College is expensive as the student loan debt hit the news every year, but there is always a way to overcome these expenses. Coming from Foxbusiness.com, there are a list of statistics and tips on what new college students can do in order to pay their fees.

Attitude. Forbes has recently reported how the new standardised tests and overall college application process are becoming painful and economically requiring. However, there is always a way.

Chancellor of Oxford University has warned that universities cannot accept more ethnic minority students under a quota system without eroding standards.

Once thought to revolutionise the education world, MOOCs may not be overthrown by a rising new platform: the SPOC. Small, Private, Online Courses, are online courses that provide the “byte-size” nature of a MOOC but much better peer-to-peer learning that is more commonplace with a classroom-based course.

In December 2015 the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) swept through Congress, largely unopposed by leaders. Years from now, the ESSA will be remembered as the catalyst that sparked a movement that helped to move away from the standardised SAT/ACT tests.

The rise of technology startups in the past 5 years and one of the most prolific investment periods in Silicon Valley history has led to more than just TV sitcoms and young students more focused on studying STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) majors.

The Guardian has published the yearly guide to university application looking forward to making a successful 2017 for all of those in need of applying to University and College.

The idea is to help you pay college tuition years in advance and thus save money in case college tuition price rise. In 12 states and at some private colleges, it is now possible to pay your tuition in advance.

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Binghamton University (BU) is one of the largest institutions in the State University of New York, and it has beefed up its application delivery capacity with a load balancing system to improve the stability of the school’s net.

US News has released a list of the top eleven schools that are still using rolling admissions. Unlike most top schools, these colleges are utilising a different approach to student application by accepting students year round rather than setting strict application deadlines.

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Work hard, play hard: a popular mantra among college students today. But is this true in real life? Do students work as hard as they're expected to by their professors, and not just as they expect themselves to? Many professors today say students don't work as hard as they can, and don't finish their assigned readings, for example, out of lack of ability. Students say they're just overloaded with things and simply don't have enough time.

College is a fun place to be in, but at times it can also be a bubble — in the sense that what (and where) you choose to study will determine who you will be surrounded by and, in turn, what sort of ideas and opinions that you will be exposed to most of the time. Reading is one good way to get out of that bubble: it reminds you that there is a wider world out with many more things to explore beyond what it is that you are studying. Yet, many students arguably do not read as widely as they should. If, for example, you chose to study something in the S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) areas, chances are you'll go through your college life without encountering works of literature. The same applies to those pursuing degrees in humanities and social sciences; chances are you wouldn't make the effort to read books that explain in detail about important scientific discoveries and paradigm shifts in the past two centuries. For students who are more balanced and would like to expand their literary horizons before graduating, here are some books you should read before venturing out in the "real world."

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