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		<title>The College Search Begins: What Every Student Deserves</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA As students head back to school, attention will quickly turn to the college application process as seniors prepare for standardized tests, gathering recommendations, preparing activities lists, and tackling their essay. Those loved and hated rankings come out any day. Not surprisingly, media attention to the college search and application ... <a href="http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2011/09/13/the-college-search-begins-what-every-student-deserves/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary on College Rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Ransdell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Ransdell, Ph.D., IECA Associate Member (Colorado) In the Feb 14/21, 2011 edition of The New Yorker there is a great piece by Malcolm Gladwell on college rankings: &#8220;The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us.&#8221; Gladwell uses the analogy of automobile rankings to illustrate the folly of the one-size-fits-most approach used ... <a href="http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2011/02/28/commentary-on-college-rankings/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>College Rankings: Defending the Indefensible</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/08/17/college-rankings-defending-the-indefensible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dodge Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dodge Johnson, President, Independent Educational Consultants Association Economist Richard Vedder recently published a piece titled &#8220;In Defense of College Rankings,&#8221; in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 08/06/1). Here he defends the soon-to-be-released U.S. News rankings, anticipating that &#8220;many in the Education Establishment will [trash] them&#8230; They will be labeled as non-scientific, elitist, poorly constructed, ... <a href="http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/08/17/college-rankings-defending-the-indefensible/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rankings, Surveys &amp; Magazines: The Silly Season Begins</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/08/16/rankings-surveys-magazines-the-silly-season-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association It is this week that U.S. News and World Report releases its best-selling issue of the year: its annual ranking of colleges and universities. Based on criteria that no one thinks is ideal (and few fully comprehend), the result is a week where colleges condemn ... <a href="http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/08/16/rankings-surveys-magazines-the-silly-season-begins/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>College Admission Directors Provide Insights, Endorse IECA Educational Consultants</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/07/29/college-admission-directors-provide-insights-endorse-ieca-educational-consultants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association Yesterday afternoon the IECA Summer Training Institute turned the process around as the 94 attendees got to hear what life is like for those involved in recruiting and evaluating potential clients in a session titled, Inside the Admissions Office. In the college session, three leaders came ... <a href="http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/07/29/college-admission-directors-provide-insights-endorse-ieca-educational-consultants/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding The Helicopter Parent Phenomenon:  A New Book for Educational Consultants Working with Parents and Their College Going Children</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/06/04/understanding-the-helicopter-parent-phenomenon-a-new-book-for-educational-consultants-working-with-parents-and-their-college-going-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Emily Snyder, IECA (Virginia) Yesterday&#8217;s edition of Inside Higher Ed has a very interesting question and answer session with Margaret K. Nelson, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College, and the author of a new book, Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times (New York University Press). Nelson takes the ... <a href="http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/06/04/understanding-the-helicopter-parent-phenomenon-a-new-book-for-educational-consultants-working-with-parents-and-their-college-going-children/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Students Use of Rankings in the College Search Process: Less or More Than We Thought?</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/02/16/students-use-of-rankings-in-the-college-search-process-less-or-more-than-we-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Emily Snyder, IECA Member (Virginia) and Chair, IECA College Committee In “Inside the College Rankings” in Friday&#8217;s US News and World Report, Bob Morse (of the Morse Code), cites the recently released &#8220;UCLA Freshman Survey: Fall 2009&#8243; as evidence that students are using a variety of factors—not just national rankings—when making a decision about ... <a href="http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/02/16/students-use-of-rankings-in-the-college-search-process-less-or-more-than-we-thought/">Read more &#187;</a>]]></description>
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