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Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings

What Happened at the NACAC Convention

September 30, 2008 01:55 PM ET | Robert Morse | Permanent Link | Print

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College empowered site already exists

Empowering colleges with the ability to connect with students, use FREE updates of college information (including campus tour videos) and empowering students by providing an UNBIASED college matching process already exists at myUsearch.com and myUsearch.com/colleges.

For example, regardless of a college's choice around SAT/ACT for admissions, they can choose whether or not it's required and what the minimums should be for acceptance. There are several other categories like this that are at the colleges' fingertips.

Another great thing: Relating to connecting with students, the colleges determine their own prices, volumes and type of students they want to connect with. And students determine which of their matching colleges they want to connect with. Makes for a dually agreed upon match. Plus, there are NO contracts for colleges.

It already exists, we just need to start using it and cutting costs for college marketing.

writing and thinking

FREE ESSAY SITE WORKS FROM SPECIAL ED TO COLLEGE ED

“I have used this technique with my corporate clients, my theology students, and soon with my students at Kaplan University.”

Dr. Kathleen A. Bishop, M.B.A., PhD, ThD.

“I had wanted to wait until I got feedback from the teachers. They love it and we are looking at using it with some of our AT devices.”

Dr. Suzanne Pope Dobson - Calhoun High School (Special Education Department Head)

“As a physician I recommend The Easy Essay almost daily to patients to help them organize their thoughts and improve their ability to concisely communicate their medical histories…”

Dr. Ernest G Hope MD PhD (Stanford University, USA)

www.TheEasyEssay.com is a free automated information organization program. It has been taught to 7 year olds, LD students, Special Education classes (or for mainstreaming), in high schools or for home schooling, for basic expository writing, as prep for the SAT, FCAT and the ACT, as well as a college class and for post graduate work. As an aid in research, the site is linked to Google® and can expand to 17 paragraphs. It has been used for interoffice communications, speech writing, and business, technical and scientific reports (See “Testimonials”). The program can even be used for educational rehabilitation purposes (its logical, color coded, repetitive functions lead one to believe that it could have beneficial effects in retraining neural pathways). Additionally, The Easy Essay can be used in any language.

A noted side effect is that users begin to communicate logically.

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Robert Morse is director of data research for U.S. News & World Report and has worked at the magazine since 1976. He develops the methodologies and surveys for the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools annual rankings, keeping an eye on higher-education trends to make sure the rankings offer prospective students the best analysis available. Morse Code provides deeper insights into the methodologies and is a forum for commentary and analysis of college, grad and other rankings.

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