How to Get Strangers to Pay For Your College Tuition Money
Yelena Shuster
With college costing more than 14 illegal kidneys, more students are turning to GoFundMe to pay for it. Over the past 3 years, more than 130,000 GoFundMe campaigns nationwide have raised $60 million from over 850,000 donations for college tuition and related expenses. [Chicago Tribune]
Careful out there...35% of 365 college admissions officers in a Kaplan Test Prep survey said they check social media during the admissions process. 47% said what they found had a positive impact on prospective students versus 42% who said what they discovered had a negative impact. [CNN]
WOOPS. Columbia accidentally accepted 276 prospective students to its Mailman School of Public Health—then took it back, following in the heels of Carnegie Mellon's and Tulane's similar screw-up last year. [NYT]
In more "fake" news, UPenn’s student-run newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, reports that Trump did not graduate in the top 15% of his class in 1968 and he did not make the dean’s list, despite his reported claims. [Philly Voice]
The vice president and dean of admission at Reed College went on Reddit to answer questions about the college admissions process. [SFGate]