The Wall Street Journal has an interesitng article on personality tests and the college admissions process. Certain colleges, including BC and Tufts, have begun to use questions that reveal an applicant’s personality on their applications. It’s an interesting concept, but personality seems pretty hard to quantify.

Joie Jager-Hyman, a former admissions officer at Dartmouth, has an interesting article in Forbes about getting into Ivies and other competitive colleges.

In Part 1 of my Final Countdown series, I talked about how to make an initial list of colleges you’re interested in applying to. Now, of course, you should apply where you want to. But you also need a list of schools that have varying probabilities of accepting you. No matter how smart you are, [...]

If Regan’s epic series on finding and choosing colleges wasn’t enough, here’s a great post from admissionsadvice.com called Rounding Out Your College List. It lists a lot of interesting colleges and opportunities that even I didn’t know about.