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The Logistics of Opting Out of the SAT
More than 10,000 applicants, about 8,000 personal interviews, over 7,000 standardized test scores, and 1201 freshman enrolled. That’s how the numbers stack up for the first freshman class admitted under Wake Forest University’s new test-optional policy. Last year, Wake Forest became the first top-30 national university to announce it was making the SAT and ACT optional for applicants. The first year of sorting through 10,555 applications under the new policy was admittedly more time consuming than in the past, but also more rewarding, says the university’s director of admissions Martha Allman The majority of applicants, or 72 percent, did submit their standardized test scores.

College Applications: “Less is More” Movement Picks Up Steam
This blog has been dedicated in part to spreading the message that less can be more when it comes to college applications. (“College Applications: More Isn’t Better” and “College Applications: More Isn’t Better – Part II”). Therefore it comes as no surprise that the Huffington Post characterized Wake Forest University as “one of the few schools trying to calm the admissions water” in its article headlined “Can Less Mean More in College Application Race?”

After the decision was made to make the SAT and ACT optional for applicants, Wake Forest did see a 16 percent increase in the number of application. But applications then plateaued at 10,500 – well below the 40,000 applications that some other universities receive. “We began saying to anyone who would listen that the number of applications do not really denote the quality of the school,” Martha Allman, Wake Forest’s dean of admissions told the Huffington Post. “We want serious applications.”

Continuing the Conversation in Baltimore Later This Month
If you missed out on the Rethinking Admissions Conference here at Wake Forest last spring, you’ll get another chance to hear from experts on some of the very same topics at this month’s meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). The last day of the national conference in Baltimore, September 26, includes three sessions on the use of standardized testing in admissions. First up is Wake Forest’s Martha Allman, who will join three other experts to discuss the ins and outs of implementing a test-optional admission policy. The NACAC answered the “why” of going test optional, now discussion turns to the “how.” The second panel will feature Wake Forest’s Joseph Soares, an associate professor of sociology who helped organize the Rethinking Admissions Conference. He will join two other scholars to discuss research on the old and new SAT and college admissions, as well as share Wake Forest’s experience with tests and admissions. The third panel will feature two speakers who will focus on alternative approaches to admissions and their impact on social diversity, academic quality, practical ability and creativity. You’ll find a full list of speakers below. There’s still time to register to attend the conference scheduled for September 24-26, or just log in to the NACAC conference blog for the latest news.

MLA Format Paper
An MLA format paper is simply one of the two major types of citation styles. You need to have a Humanities, Arts or Social topics before you can use this. On the other hand, the APA format is used primarily for science based topics. But nevertheless, you can still interchange the two. So what is an MLA format paper? When it comes to in-text citation, you only need to capture the part of the document that you wish to use as reference. In MLA format, you need to have the part enclosed in quotation marks. Afterward, you can then put the author’s last name and the page number of his work something like this one (Lougen 8).

Research Proposal – Start Writing Your Paper
A student’s life will never be complete if he is not going to construct a research proposal. Basically, this project can be considered the climax of learning because it provides the student the capacity to look for new knowledge and search for answers that can satisfy a specific question. Now, if you are not really familiar with thesis writing then we will discuss things about it briefly.

A research proposal can be considered as a simple essay. The main difference is that it requires more parts, more extensive researching and demands highly structured system of writing. In essay writing, you only need the Introduction, Body and the Conclusion. On the other hand, a research proposal paper needs to have a Literature Review, Methodology, and Data Analysis.

Thesis topics may adapt well to whatever subjects you wish to write about. However, it is ideal if you could come up with a topic that has the following characteristics:

Examples of thesis
Examples of thesis are not a specific research papers. They are what enable the student to defy the writing charge. These are necessary because most students will never understand what is required of them, yet they continue to develop their ideas. These should therefore be emblematic research projects that illustrate a whole kind or type of research project.

Such examples do not always have to be specific to or look alike with what you have as a topic. In fact the danger is that if there are so many similarities, the student may be tempted to copy this which may of course is considered as plagiarized work. These are simply meant for creating an appropriate picture of a sample paper in your mind. The contents may be something that you have never stumbled upon or had the opportunity to read. You can still get help form an arts paper if you are a science student. Thus you can make your own paper come to life by adhering to what you read in examples of projects.

Girl Power: Women Outpacing Men in Higher Ed
Women are headed to college in higher numbers than men, and are already earning the majority of undergraduate and graduate degrees. Those are among the findings in an annual report released recently by the National Center for Education Statistics. Titled “The Condition of Education 2010,” the report predicts that women will account for about 60 percent of undergraduate and post-baccalaureate enrollment within a decade. The prediction is in keeping with graduation trends. In the 2007-8 academic years, women accounted for 62 percent of all associate degrees, 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees, 61 percent of all master’s, and 51 percent of all doctorates being awarded, according to the report.

Quintessential Questions: Wake Forest’s Admission Director Gives Insight into the Interview Process
During the winter months in the Admissions Office, Fridays are dedicated to “Committee.” We gather with stacks of applications, discuss them, argue about them, eat lunch over them, plead for them, and then eventually vote as to whether or not they should be offered invitations to join our academic community.

Summer Fridays are different. With the incoming class already set and next year’s applications yet to arrive (except for the most zealous of the early decision) we have time to plan, to look ahead and to discuss the activity which consumes the bulk of our summer days—interviewing. We share insights, interview questions that have proven effective and yes, I admit, stories that are shared with us by interviewees about alien abductions the ability to communicate with animals, or details of the plot of the Transformer movie.

The tropical rainforest is a unique ecosystem that is home to many plants and animals, in fact more plants and animals than we even know about. The plants found in the tropical rainforest produce much of the oxygen that is essential for our planet. In addition, many of the plants have unique healing properties against illness and disease.

Are We Alone?… and Other Wacky College Essay Topics
There’s no doubt about it. Writing college essays is stressful! After all, it’s no easy task to answer questions like “describe the world you come from … and how (it) has shaped your dreams and aspirations.” (University of California). But what if you were asked, “How do you feel about Wednesday?” (University of Chicago) or “What outrages you?” (Wake Forest University) or even “Are we alone?” (Tufts).

The world is a very big place with a population of 6,234,250,234 people and always growing. The world and its important resources are being destroyed by populations growing in such small areas. Many of these small areas have many problems of their own because of over population, such as hunger and many poor people.

“Collecting Dead Relatives and Sometimes a Live Cousin” and “My Family Tree is Lost in the Forest” are just some of the catchy slogans found printed on the shirts of genealogy enthusiasts. These avid researchers are looking to fill the holes in their family trees. It’s work that most have been at for decades.

U.S. News & World Report: Are the SATs a Must for College Admissions?
Are the SATs necessary for college admissions? Or is high school performance just as good an indicator of a student’s likely success? That’s the topic U.S. News & World Report tackles in its September issue. We first told you about it last month when the issue hit newsstands. Now you can read about it online. Click here to see columns by Wake Forest Provost Jill Tiefenthaler and Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board. As you might imagine, each has a very different view on this issue.

Cybervisits Allow Universities to Keep the Lines of Communication Open
Tough economic times have forced many Americans to curtail their travel, and university administrators are no exception. But admissions officers are coming up with creative alternatives to keep the lines of communication open with high school students. An admissions officer from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently conducted a cybervisit to a Fredericksburg, Virginia private school without ever leaving her office. She used a webcam to communicate with 15 students via Skype.

Wake Forest University also used Skype to conduct personal interviews with applicants after it became the first top-30 national university to adopt a test-optional policy. Knowing that some applicants would opt not to submit standardized test scores, the university admissions committee decided to be more individualized and deliberate about their decisions. While they interviewed many applicants the old-fashioned way — in person —- they invited others to interview via webcam or through a written, on-line interview.