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...elite college admissions at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told the Columbia Spectator in April that a full 25 percent of applicants to selective schools seek help beyond their high school counselors.Despite the increasing number of students who use these companies, their effectiveness is unclear. Sharon Merrow Cuseo, an upper school dean at Harvard-Westlake School, has been counseling for over thirteen years. She believes that students and parents tend to think that their consulting service was the crucial component in a successful application and that they then go on to relate this opinion to others...
...stays there until the owner claims it. Kenyon in Ohio includes a paragraph in its acceptance letter that is entirely personal to the particular student: good job on the essay, nice season in basketball. The big schools can't do that--"and it's making a difference," says Sharon Merrow Cuseo, dean at Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake Academy. "I think of my students as cynical consumers of college propaganda, but they love that personal touch. They come in and say, 'Jeez, look at this note they wrote me. It's good to be wanted.'" She can map the change...
...debate was moderated by NPR's John Merrow, featured Cleveland City Councillor Fannie Lewis and Clint Bolick, executive director of the Institute for Justice...
...None. 3B: None. 2B: Vermont--None; Harvard--Rice (2), Teller, Reed E: Vermont--Merrow; Harvard--Bagley...
Last night's lecture was one in a series of forums at the Education School to be aired on The Merrow Report, a program on National Public Radio