CC in the NYT

[just_forget_me]

I was shocked when I couldn’t find a thread about it… Collegeconfidential gets a big mention in a New York Times article from last week.

<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/fashion/thursdaystyles/09online.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/fashion/thursdaystyles/09online.html</a>

[Roger_Dooley]

Also, the LA Times:
<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sat9mar09,0,3671066.story?coll=la-story-footer[/url]”>http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sat9mar09,0,3671066.story?coll=la-story-footer</a>

and Slate:
<a href=“http://www.slate.com/id/2137795/[/url]”>http://www.slate.com/id/2137795/</a>

[jimbob1225]

represent

[IzzyJ]

Wooohoooo!

[Icarus]

Maybe thats why I keep getting a “the server is too busy for you right now - leave us alone” message

[anon34665770]

It was mentioned this month in a less prestigious publication…Seveteen magazine.

[IzzyJ]

Seventeen?

Oh, cool…

[Roger_Dooley]

Seventeen? Hmmm, any idea which issue? I think my subscription lapsed a few decades ago. I don’t think they publish the content online, either. Thanks.

[jimbob1225]

Haha Roger, what do you have against Seventeen?

[just_forget_me]

Featured thread! Thanks Roger.

[kcirsch]

we can all look back and say we were there before the hype…haha

[gilly]

I cant access it because Im not a member!!! Anyone feel like copypasting the bit about collegeconfidential?? Or is that like illegal or something…?

[just_forget_me]

I also spent a couple of hours reading the posts on the discussion forums at Collegeconfidential.com. I was unable to tear myself away from the naked longing with which students discussed their chances of being accepted. (’‘I have a real hook,’’ Harvard2011 wrote. ‘‘I’m from South Dakota and I’m from a low income family.’’) And with which parents discussed their children. (’‘Thanks for writing,’’ momofthree wrote. ‘‘If S2 got such an e-mail, he has not mentioned it. I do know he has a complete file as his dad called to check!’’)

Thanks go to my father… for having a Times Select account!

[sarorah]

There was a thread about this actually, before yours
But this is just as excellent.

Mr.Dooley, you now have the liberty of adding the “How did you know about us” section to your registration page . .

Check as many as apply:

_Internet
_Friends/Family
_Television
_Newspapers/Magazines
_Other

[dufus3709]

In the LA Times article talking about CB’s misgrading, the mention of collegeconfidential comes up as:

In one indication of the highly charged atmosphere surrounding college admissions, a New York attorney posted a notice Wednesday on the collegeconfidential.com website urging affected students to call her office. Reached by phone, Catherine Riccards said her firm was investigating the possibility of suing but did not yet have a client.

Honestly, people are stupid. How “highly charged” can it be because one lawyer is thinking about suing but doesn’t have a client yet. (Some lawyers probably think about suing if they have to wait too long in line at the grocery store so this doesn’t seem to be an example of a highly charged atmosphere."

[tlon7]

Greetings,

I don’t know how many college professors are members of college confidential; I just happened upon it this evening. I have taught in community colleges, ‘mainstream’ large universities, and to students who ranged from prison inmates to those at the pinnacle of academic performance. I am a bit of an outlaw in the academic environment and now can be even more of one since I quit my position: not fired, released, dismissed, just quit.

Hope to hear from some of you soon.

ag