With the increased use of e.mails to provide notification and reminders relating to the MVS college counseling program, the following are archived copies of recent and previous memos and reminders sent from the MVS College Loft.

Memos & Reminders from the MVS College Loft:

Mid-April List of College Acceptance, Class of 2007

Class of 2007: Junior & Senior Year College Counseling Calendar

Mid-April List of College Acceptances, Class of 2006

May, 05: Final list of College Acceptances & Matriculations

Photos of 14 "MVS Lifers" from Class of 2005

News Articles Relating to College Counseling Process:

Great Resources:  
(1)  Insidehighered.com
(2) The New York Times
(3) The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
(4) The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)
(5) The Washington Post

5/9/08:  NY Times:  Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students

5/8/08:  Los Angeles Times:  Bursting the AP Bubble

5/2/08:  The Chronicle of Higher Education:  Advancing Beyond AP Courses

4/2/08:  NY Times:  Elite College Reporting Record Lows in Admission

2/4/08:  NY Times:  Endowments Widen a Higher Education Gap

2/4/08:  NY Times:  In Summer, Hitting the Books, Not just the Beach

1/31/08 Insidehighered.com:  Targeting the 'Lost Year'

1/23/08:  Insidehighered.com:  Admissions Dysfunction

1/23/08:  NY Times:  Applications to Colleges are Breaking Records

1/14/08: The Times-Tribune:  Largest High School Crop in History Competes for Admission

1/9/08:  NY Times:  The College Brokers

12/11/07:  Insidehighered.com:  Harvard's Aid Bonanza

12/11/07:  NY Times:  Harvard to Aid Students High in Middle Class

9/7/2007:  Insidehighered.com:  Who Gets In - and Why

8/30/07: Insidehighered.com:  Second Thoughts on Admission Reform

8/28/07:  Insidehighered.com:  SAT Scores Down Again, Wealth Up Again

8/20/07:  NY Times:  College Ratings Race Roars on Despite Concerns

8/1/07:  NY Times:  Res Life

5/16/07:  LA Times:  Rank This, U.S. News

5/16/07:  NY Times:  Ivy League Crunch Brings New Cachet to Next Tier

5/7/07:  Insidehighered.com:  Battle Lines on U.S. News

5/1/07:  Washington Post:  At First They Flirt, Then College Crush

4/30/07:  NY Times:  Young, Gifted, and Not Getting Into Harvard

4/30/07 NY Times:  The A-B-C's of Calculating Financial Aid

4/22/07:  NY Times:  Education Life (Various articles regarding college related issues)

4/1/07:  NY Times:  For Girls, It's be Yourself, and be Perfect, Too

11/17/06:  Boston.com:  'Helicopter' Parents Try Too Hard

11/6/06:  New York Times:  Education Life (Various articles regarding college related issues)

10/26/06:  NACAC:  MySpace in College Admissions

9/27/06:  New York Times:  University of Virginia Drops Early Admissions

9/20/06:  Trusteeship: Is the College Admissions Process too Obsessed with Rankings, Test Scores, and Prestige?

9/19/06:  Washington Post:  In Many Classrooms, "HONORS" in Name Only

Forbes:  Myths about College Admissions. 

New York Times: Sports Features: A series of nine articles, spotlighting Haverford College's admissions and athletic recruitment policies: Archives of THE ATHLETE'S EDGE, by Bill Pennington.

     New York Times, Education Life: 23 April, 2006: Taming the Monster, by Samantha Stainburn.

                    PDF version of Samantha Stainburn's article, Taming the Monster

     USA Today: 4 April, 2006: More Universities are Going SAT Optional, by Laura Bruno.     

     New York Times: 4 December, 2005: THE ATHLETE'S EDGE: Haverford Debates Impact of Athletics, By Bill Pennington (as posted on the Haverford College webpage)

     The Providence Journal: 14 November, 2005: Putting Advanced Placement in Perspective, By Ralph Sloan

     Atlantic Monthly: November, 2005: Is There Life After Rankings (Reed College vs. US News & World Report, By Colin Diver 

     New York Times: 16 October: Choreographing the Complex Recruiting Dance, By Bill Pennington (as posted on the Haverford College webpage)

     The New Yorker: 10 October, 2005: Getting In: The Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions, By Malcolm Gladwell

     Wall Street Journal: 17 September, 2005: Beating College Stress, By Ellen Gamerman (as posted on Union College webpage)

     Washington Post: 13 September, 2005: A Crusade to Save College Admissions, By Jay Mathews

     Washington Post.com: 14 June, 2005: A's for Everyone, By Alicia C. Shepard, Journalist-in-Residence

     USA Today: 18 April, 2005: With 'Senioritis' the Diagnosis, the Search for a Cure is on, By Sharon Jayson

     New York Times: 17 April, 2005: Students' Verdict on the First SAT Essay Test?  Uncertainty, By Barbara Whitaker

     Washington Post: 14 April, 2005: Scores for New SAT Come In, but Real Test Is Deciphering Them, By Lori Aratani

     USA Today: 12 April, 2005: As New SAT Scores Trickle in, 2400 is the New 1600, By Associated Press

     CNN / Money: 29 March, 2005: The New Math of College Admissions; Test scores and selectivity help identify the "best" schools. But such stats are easy to manipulate, By Sarah Max

     Chronicle of Higher Education: 25 February, 2005: Top Colleges Should Select From a Pool of 'Good Enough', By Barry Schwartz

     Washington Post: 14 December, 2004: Why Colleges Think They're Better Than AP, by Jay Matthews.