Roundup of school-specific, undergraduate ADMISSIONS BLOGS

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<p>More seem to be sprouting up…..please add links if you know of such a blog. This is by no means an exhaustive list.</p>

<p>I've noticed some admissions blogs are hosted by admission staff themselves, sometimes with student blog additions, and some just rely on the students....I find the latter less informative than the former, so I've provided two lists below for each type. I am sure there are many many more "official" student-only blogs out there....</p>

<p>Blogs where admissions reps post
Alfred Alfred</a> University : Admissions Director's Blog
Babson Babson</a> College - Admissions Blog
Bryn Mawr mawrmawr's</a> blog
Case Western Undergraduate</a> Admission
Chicago Chicago's</a> Uncommon Application
Colby Colby</a> College | News & Events | Colby Blog and Podcast Directory
Conn College Anything</a> Admission at Connecticut College
Cornell (engineering) Cornell</a> Engineering : Engineering Admissions Blogs
Dixie State DIXIE</a> STATE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS BLOG
Holy Cross Admission:</a> Not Impossible | College of the Holy Cross
Ill Inst of Tech Illinois</a> Institute of Technology - Undergraduate Admission - Blogs
Johns Hopkins Hopkins</a> Insider
Lakeland Lakeland</a> College - Admissions Counselors Blogs
MIT MIT</a> Admissions
Olin The</a> OLINformer
Oral Roberts Admissions</a> - Oral Roberts University
Oregon State OSU</a> Admissions Blog
Providence Providence</a> College: Scott Seseske
Seattle SU</a> Communities - Admissions
Stevens Stevens</a> Institute of Technology: Admissions Blog
SUNY Stony Brook The</a> Stony Brook Admissions Blog
Swarthmore Swarthmore</a> College | Admissions | Swarthmore Blogs
UCLA Admissions</a> Blog :: UCLA Undergraduate Admissions
Vanderbilt Vanderbilt</a> Admissions Blog
Vermont Admissions</a> Blog
Virginia Notes</a> from Peabody II: The UVA Application Process</p>

<p>note that Bryn Mawr and Conn College appear to have ceased their blogging effort....their blogs are from last season & I could not find any recent activity.</p>

<p>Student-only blogs
Amherst Am'erst:</a> Amherst College News and Discussion | Amherst College Blog
Beloit Beloit</a> College Admissions
Bryant Bryant</a> University - Student Blogs
Colgate Colgate:</a> Blogs and Journals
Cornell Cornell</a> University - Student Life - Life on the Hill
Dartmouth Dartmouth</a> Student Blog
Messiah Messiah</a> College: Admissions - Student Blogs
Michigan Go</a> Blue Blogs
Mount Marty Mount</a> Marty College - Admissions - Meet Students
Skidmore Skidmore</a> College: Student Bloggers
Smith Smith</a> College :: Student Blogs
Stephens Stephens</a> Student Blog
SUNY Buffalo UB</a> Undergraduate Admissions: Blogs
Wesleyan Wesleying[/url</a>]
Wheaton [url=<a href="http://wheatoncollege.edu/admission/blogs.html%5DWheaton">http://wheatoncollege.edu/admission/blogs.html]Wheaton</a> College: Admission: Blogs
Wisc Lutheran Wisconsin</a> Lutheran College - Admissions Student Blogs
Wright State Admissions</a> Blog</p>

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<p>The MIT blogs include both student blogs and admissions rep blogs, not just admissions rep.</p>

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<p>University of Rochester: University</a> of Rochester : Forum
Not quite a blog, but Q&A boards, similar to this one, answered by UR staff.</p>

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<p>btw, since I first started compiling this list a few days ago, it appears that Conn College has removed access to their blog archives on the link I posted above....hmmm...guess the new admissions folks don't like this blogging stuff....any case, here's April 2007's postings:</p>

<p>Anything</a> Admission at Connecticut College: April 2007 Archives</p>

<p>just change the date in the url to look at each month's postings.</p>

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<p>Similar to the one Chedva posted, the College of the Atlantic has an Q/A forum.</p>

<p>College</a> of the Atlantic Admissions Board</p>

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<p>UNC Chapel Hill (admissions staff & students) University</a> of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>Arkansas (admiss staff & students) The</a> University of Arkansas-- Office of Admissions HogBlogs
George Mason (admissions staff) George</a> Mason University — Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
LaSalle (admiss staff & students) What's</a> Life like at LaSalle?
Lehigh (admissions staff) Jessica</a> @ Lehigh Admissions
Illinois (admiss staff & students) U</a> of I Admissions: Blog
Northeastern (admissions staff) Northeastern</a> Admissions
Portland State (admiss staff & students) Portland</a> State University
Richmond (admissions staff) <a href="http://admissionsblog.richmond.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://admissionsblog.richmond.edu/&lt;/a>
Santa Clara (admissions staff) Undergraduate</a> Admission - Undergraduate Admission Blog
Tennessee (admissions staff) The</a> Dean's Blog, University of Tennessee Libraries
Tulane (students) Tulane</a> University Undergraduate Admission | Meet the Bloggers
Waterloo (students) Home</a> | Bloggers | University of Waterloo</p>

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<p>Dartmouth (students- admiss interns) Dartmouth</a> Student Blog</p>

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<p>My friend is an admissions blogger for MIT- she has a slightly terrifying group of prospie stalkers who follow her to LiveJournal and Facebook.</p>

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My friend is an admissions blogger for MIT- she has a slightly terrifying group of prospie stalkers who follow her to LiveJournal and Facebook.

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Oh, that's pleasant. D has been asked if she wants to be considered for writing an admissions office blog. I'll be sure to share.</p>

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<p>Wesleyan senior interviewers blog: Voice</a>! » Applying</p>

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<p>Great team effort here! I try to keep an updated list of blogs on the bottom of my original blog, but it gets away from me at times. I try to break out the blogs that are "newsletter style" (meaning, they are announcements about campus events) and ones that talk in real time about the application process...but it has gotten hard to keep up with that.</p>

<p>There are loads of vendors offering blog management now and I think they are helping officers that didn't know much about blogging get involved. It's nice to see this list grow every year.</p>

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<p>Curmudgeon's D embracing college admissions in cyberspace? Priceless! Will she be coming to you for advice?</p>

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<p>ffscout, I don't know anything about it, nor did she, but it sounded like more of a "daily life of a Rhodent" thing. Her advisor is putting her up for it (over some initial "I can't write" objections of D) because of her "involvement in campus life". I don't think it's "admission's advice" per se.</p>

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<p>Carnegie Mellon has a student message board. CMU</a> Message Board</p>

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<p>"Rhodent"?? I love it!</p>

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<p>


Yep. They have fun with the name . D is a member of both Ultimate Frisbee Teams - "Rhodekill" and the ever so dainty "Lady Rhodekill". LOL.</p>

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<p>Carleton UNIVERSITY (students) Undergraduate</a> Admissions - CU Blogs
Creighton (students) <a href="https://admissions.creighton.edu/tabid/340/Default.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://admissions.creighton.edu/tabid/340/Default.aspx&lt;/a>
Creighton (admissions message board) <a href="https://admissions.creighton.edu/tabid/341/Default.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://admissions.creighton.edu/tabid/341/Default.aspx&lt;/a>
Ga Tech (mostly students) Knowing</a> Changes Everything
Wabash (admissions) Spreading</a> the Fame</p>

<p>& Dean J-- thanks for all of your constructive input here on CC and on your blog. Even folks who don't have UVa in their sights can learn much from your posts.</p>

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<p>Oxford [oxblogster[/url</a>]
by the undergrad admissions director, but appears that he has not kept it current.</p>

<p>Stevens Inst of Technology [url=<a href="http://stevensadmissions.typepad.com/%5DStevens"&gt;http://stevensadmissions.typepad.com/]Stevens&lt;/a> Institute of Technology: Admissions Blog](<a href="http://oxblogster.blogspot.com/%5Doxblogster%5B/url"&gt;http://oxblogster.blogspot.com/)&lt;/p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/members/college15.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/members/college15.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Discusses the Tufts blog. I didn't know how to paste the link.</p>