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		<title>College Admission Directors Provide Insights, Endorse IECA Educational Consultants</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Princeton Review Offerings Underscore Need for More Information, Importance of Independent Educational Consultants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association We have learned that The Princeton Review will announce, sometime today, new seminars available in person or online covering issues like writing a great college essay, building a college list, how the college application works, and other process-oriented topics. Such a development underscores two truths: there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Must Do a Better Job Ensuring Colleges Understand WHAT Educational Consultants DO and How Many Kids We Work With</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/05/11/we-must-do-a-better-job-ensuring-colleges-understand-what-educational-consultants-do-and-how-many-kids-we-work-with/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Yesterday about a dozen IECA members visited three Ontario, Canada colleges. During those campus visits, one school provided the consultants with their &#8220;Recruitment Representative Agreement.&#8221; Confusing &#8220;consultants&#8221; and &#8220;agents,&#8221; this college assumed IECA members accepted reimbursements in exchange for referring students, guaranteeing a per-head &#8216;kick-back&#8217; of 12% of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Educational Consulting Moves from Adolescence to Adulthood, Let&#8217;s End the Apologies and Make Ourselves Heard—in the Best Interest of Our Clients</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/04/27/as-educational-consulting-moves-from-adolescence-to-adulthood-lets-end-the-apologies-and-make-ourselves-heard%e2%80%94in-the-best-interest-of-our-clients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consulting Association I spent the last few days attending the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling (PCACAC) Conference in Dover, Delaware with school counselors, college admission officials, and independent educational consultants from Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, DC, and West Virginia. I heard a couple of themes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Daily Asks the Right Question&#8230;But Gets the Answer All Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/03/15/stanford-daily-asks-the-right-question-but-gets-the-answer-all-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA An article in the Stanford Daily has gotten a lot of attention over the weekend. It raised a question about the authenticity of student applications to the prestigious school, after an advertisement appeared in the campus newspaper for an &#8220;admission boot camp&#8221; run by an unaffiliated educational consultant whose ethics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE Fundamental Difference Among School and College Consultants: A Brief Primer for Parents</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/01/11/the-fundamental-difference-among-school-and-college-consultants-a-brief-primer-for-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/01/11/the-fundamental-difference-among-school-and-college-consultants-a-brief-primer-for-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA I had a brief e-mail exchange last week with Scott Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher Education. He called my attention to the Web site of a consulting firm that was meant to appeal to parents of one ethnic group. Scott was pretty sure that the owner of the site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only 57% of Freshmen Earn Their College Degree Within Six Years. And That&#8217;s the Good News.</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2009/12/07/only-57-of-freshmen-earn-their-college-degree-within-six-years-and-thats-the-good-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA A new national study by Education Trust reports the surprising figure that only 57% of college freshmen (in 1999, the class studied) nationwide has achieved their undergraduate degree within six years. That figure includes students who transferred and graduated elsewhere. Worse still were the numbers for low-income and underrepresented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSSE, IECA, and Student Engagement</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2009/11/09/nsse-ieca-and-student-engagement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA, from the IECA Conference in Charlotte, NC There is an article worth reading in today&#8217;s USA Today that explores the National Survey of Student Engagement, or NSSE, research conducted by Indiana University. The research, based on surveys of more than 2 million students on 443 college campuses over ten years, [...]]]></description>
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