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* The eight universities constituting the Ivy League are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth (which calls itself a college), Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. The Little Ivies are Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams.
* The history and philosophy major did not go into the scrap-metal business. After a research sojourn to Colombia during which a towns history that he wrote became a television documentary, he is getting a PhD in filmmaking at UCLA. But, Mr. Bittner reports, hes planning to make the scrap-metal company the subject of a film.
LOOKING BEYOND THE IVY LEAGUE
L OREN P OPE , a Washington newspaperman who had led the fight for better schools in rural Loudoun County, Virginia, first started writing a column about education for the Gannett Newspapers in 1952, which led to the education editorship of the New York Times during the height of the college-going chaos of the late 1950s. Then, and later as a top administrator of what is now Oakland University in Michigan, he became deeply concerned with the lack of consumer information on colleges, and the heavy dropout, transfer, and failure rates resulting from uninformed choices. This concern was triggered by the poor advice he got for his own son from friends in the then Office of Education.
In 1965, he opened the College Placement Bureau in Washington to help families make informed, fruitful choices. Out of his reporting and research came a book, The Right College: How to Get In, Stay In, Get Back In (Macmillan, 1970), and several magazine articles, including the nationally syndicated Twenty Myths That Can Jinx Your College Choice, first published in the Washington Post Magazine. Readers Digest has sold half a million reprints of its condensation, titled Facts to Know in Picking a College.
Pope has been a contributor to professional journals and a speaker at meetings of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors. He has also appeared on radio and television. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
FINDING THE COLLEGE THATS RIGHT FOR YOU
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First published in Penguin Books 1990
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Pope, Loren.
Looking beyond the Ivy League : finding the college thats right for you /
Loren Pope.New rev. ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-0188-6
1. College choiceUnited States. 2. Universities and collegesUnited States
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To Ann Rittenberg, my literary agent and former client (good small college, Eckerd), who now has Ivies working for her. She got me off dead center to write about my mission: to change the way people think about colleges. Her keen judgment has made my work popular and helpful to more people.
The colleges themselves have not changed since the first edition of this book came out in 1990. Colleges rarely do, but perceptions of the top universities shouldand do. Two prestigious Ivy scholars, from Princeton and Harvard, have said, as detailed elsewhere in the book, that liberal education doesnt exist in the research universities, and that they are failing the nation.
These exposs are overdue; the feverish struggle to get into one of the elite universities is growing worse year by year. Getting into a name college is probably the number-one family anxiety, and it is a foolish pursuit. There are hundreds of good small colleges that want students and that will do more than the elites to develop teenagers into good leaders and citizens. The universities are, and have been for decades, guilty of false and misleading advertising; the testimony of Princetons Dr. Stanley N. Katz and Harvards former dean, Dr. Harry Lewis, indicates that they are harming youths.
I hope this book makes even more forceful the truth that the key to the good life is choosing a college for the help it will give you in becoming a good and moral citizen.
Besides the debt I owe to students, faculty, and others at the colleges for my enlightenment, two incomparably able mothers are the ones who have done the work that has freed countless families from the college admissions frenzy. One is Virginia Buege, executive director of the Colleges That Change Lives Web site and the one who conceived the idea for and has flawlessly coordinated the CTCL tours since 1998. These tours have visited hundreds of cities at the requests of high school counselors and have changed the way many thousands of families think about colleges.
The other is Martha (Marty) OConnell, who resigned from what I assume was a six-figure income job as vice president for enrollment and financial aid at McDaniel College to become a missionary for CTCL. McDaniels president, Dr. Joan Foley, said of Marty, Most people are easily replaced; Marty is irreplaceable. Out of the fullness of her experience, she has updated and largely rewritten the chapter on financial aid.
This book of mine, which will help you fulfill your college commandopen sesame!is a lot more than a magic phrase. It brings an unmatched expertisehalf a century of investigating and writing about colleges, of being education editor of the New York Times , of being a college official, and of counseling students and their parents on good educational goalsto helping you open the door to the right college.
Opening this door may not be done easily, much less with a single command, but the task will be exciting and successful, and will reward you for a lifetime. The enlightenment and guidance herein will not only give you confidence, but guide you to an experience no Ivy or Ivy clone can match. It will also free you from the nervous collapse suffered by untold scores of thousands each year. Guaranteed.
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