Loren Pope Touted "No Name" Colleges in a Brand-Name World

Autor/in	Hoover, Eric
Titel	Loren Pope Touted "No Name" Colleges in a Brand-Name World
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 7, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Classification; Profiles; Admissions Officers; Reputation; Institutional Evaluation; Consultants; College Admission + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Consultant; Berater; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung
Abstract	This article profiles Loren Pope, a college consultant and a former education editor at "The New York Times" who touted "no name" colleges and called the nation's most famous university, Harvard University, a rip-off. In his influential book "Colleges That Change Lives" (Penguin, 1996), Mr. Pope profiled 40 institutions--most of them small liberal-arts colleges--which, he wrote, would "do at least as much, and usually far more than, an Ivy League school, an Ivy clone, or a major research university to give you a rich, full life, and to make you a winner." The late admissions consultant valued the fit between an individual student and a college more than he did an Ivy League pedigree. In speeches and writings, he offered students and parents an antidote to the chase for top-25 prestige. He encouraged students to evaluate colleges based on their own personal needs and strengths, and not on institutional rankings or reputations. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10