These college posters are out… … In favor of these: What do you see when you look at the Hamilton College poster directly above? Its rolling hills, ivy covered walls, and students talking on sidewalks crisscrossing green quads. Look closer. Hamilton (and soon others?) is aiming directly at prospective future students with its Quick Response [...]
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What QR Are You Thinking of Applying To?
Posted in College Counseling, tagged college on October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Phi Beta Khraishah
Posted in Alumni, Burke y El Mundo, College Counseling, Community, tagged college, Community on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Burke alum, Janine Khraishah was an unforgettable member of Burke world, excelling in school, on the field and in service to the community. After graduating from Burke in 2008, Janine went to Brown University where she was recently welcomed, as a Junior, into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Here’s what she has to [...]
Reject The Tyranny of ‘Being Picked’
Posted in College Counseling, Culture, Education, tagged college, Education on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s college notification week. All across the country high school seniors are re-living their first grade experience of waiting to see who picks them for kickball. Except now the choice is being made by people who know so little about the kids that put so much faith in them. Why are we so willing to [...]
None Shall Sleep (In Chem Class)
Posted in College Counseling, Education, Science on December 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Students applying to Cornell University may want to read up on chemistry professor, David Usher. According to this Cornell blog post, he sometimes gently awakens the occasional student asleep in his class by singing Nessun Dorma (”None Shall Sleep”) from Puccini’s Turandot or the Berceuse from Benjamin Godard’s opera Jocelyn, which begins, in Usher’s translation, [...]
Ranking College Rankings
Posted in College Counseling, tagged college on September 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The college search and application process went into high gear last week with the first scheduled break for Seniors to visit colleges. Every year around this time we pore over the various college rankings that come out from US News, Princeton Review, Forbes, etc. And every year, these ‘expert’ lists slightly juggle the ordering of [...]
Road Trips
Posted in Alumni, College Counseling, tagged college on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the middle of Spring Break, which means many things, including it’s time for some juniors and sophs to hit the road and go a-wanderin’ to different colleges around the land. Below are some photos from some recent trips. Let us know if you can tell where each of the photos come from – and [...]
Colleges visit Burke!
Posted in College Counseling on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The college counseling office has so far hosted over 70 colleges and universities this fall. As we continue to schedule more visits, you are encouraged to periodically check the school website for updates to ensure that you do not miss a school of interest.
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