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		<title>Six IECA Conference Innovations You May Have Missed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consulting Association We are still in the early stages of conference registration for IECA&#8217;s Fall National Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. However, we have already passed 600 attendees and are looking forward to a wonderful gathering. Here are six new, improved, or unique aspects to the conference that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Educational Consultants and the Power of Collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Yesterday, I was able to spend several hours in Los Angeles with some of IECA&#8217;s local members. In all, 27 members took part in our gathering—a wonderful number by any standard, but almost remarkable in the short notice we provided. More remarkable still is that they gathered not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Teen is not a Commodity for Admission: Why IECA Stresses Understanding the Entire Child</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/08/19/a-teen-is-not-a-commodity-for-admission-why-ieca-stresses-understanding-the-entire-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Recently I came across a comment on a blog where someone expressed an implied criticism of IECA. The criticism was that the Independent Educational Consultants Association does not focus its energies exclusively in school selection, application, and admission. The criticism actually kept me up all night—quite a feat for [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[College Rankings]]></category>
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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, [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[College Rankings]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Princeton Review Offerings Underscore Need for More Information, Importance of Independent Educational Consultants</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/07/29/new-princeton-review-offerings-underscore-need-for-more-information-importance-of-independent-educational-consultants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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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>Tour de California</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/07/13/tour-de-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Klemmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jane Klemmer, IECA Associate Member (New York) I’m still riding an incredible high, no pun intended. Two days ago I returned from a week in southern California, where I cycled and toured colleges with 16 other college counselors and consultants. To say that this was one of my most memorable college tours sounds almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Poll Confirms Family Confusion Over College Finances</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/07/06/national-poll-confirms-family-confusion-over-college-finances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/07/06/national-poll-confirms-family-confusion-over-college-finances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA A study conducted earlier this year, and recently published by the College Board and Art &#38; Science Group LLC, indicated that students and parents are making decisions about college applications and matriculation based on financial aid information that is incorrect, incomplete, and inaccurate. In the survey, 59% of students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IECA&#8217;s 34th Year Comes to Close with an Eye to the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/06/29/iecas-34th-year-comes-to-close-with-an-eye-to-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iecaonline.com/blog/2010/06/29/iecas-34th-year-comes-to-close-with-an-eye-to-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sklarow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA June 30th marks the close of our Fiscal Year and IECA&#8217;s 34th serving as the principal voice of the profession of independent educational consulting. We entered the year committed to helping our members thrive, and exploring ways to strengthen the profession, promote the value of the work we [...]]]></description>
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