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Did you know that Carnegie Mellon has one of the top schools for fine arts in the country or that it also has an innovative studio laboratory for “atypical, anti-disciplinary and inter-institutional research”?

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

The College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon offers programs in architecture, art, design, drama and music. The cutting-edge Media Initiative at the Center for the Arts in Society, Co-organized by Jim Duesing of the School of Art and Kathy Newman of the English Department, supports several major projects, such as “Listening Spaces”, “Gender/Sexuality/Media” and “Occupy Facebook”.

Carnegie Mellon also houses “a laboratory for atypical, anti-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture”. Carnegie Mellon’s innovative Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry is a flexible laboratory for new modes of arts research, production and presentation. The Studio’s current emphasis is on new-media arts and builds on a twenty-year plus history of hosting interdisciplinary artists.

For more information about The Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, visit http://bit.ly/Creative_Inquiry .
For more information about the Media Initiative at the Center for the Arts in Society, visit http://bit.ly/Media_Initiative .

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Did you know that the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship provides up to $40,000 per year to current juniors for their senior year of college and first year of (required) graduate school?

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

The Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship program provides funding to college juniors who are preparing academically and professionally for entry into the Foreign Service, which is a division of the United States Department of State. The program encourages women, members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service and students with financial need to apply. Underrepresented minority groups in this context include Asian Americans, Hispanics, African Americans and Native Americans.

There are multiple requirements specific to this fellowship. One requirement of the program is that selected fellows must pursue a graduate degree in one of the following fields: international studies, international affairs, public policy, administration, economics, political science or foreign languages. Each successful candidate is also contractually obligated to devote three years of service as a Foreign Service Officer.  Fellows must also attend one of the pre-approved and participating graduate schools (see link at bottom of email.)

For more information about the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, visithttp://bit.ly/Thomas_R_Pickering_Fellowship.
For more information about participating graduate schools, visit http://bit.ly/Participating_Grad_Schools.

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Did you know that all 4-year colleges and universities in the United States accept the ACT?

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

The ACT, first administered in 1959, is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions and was created as a competitor to the more widely-known SAT.   Many believe the ACT to be the more straightforward examination, as it seeks to measure high school students’ general educational development and their capability to complete college-level work.  The ACT covers four basic skill areas – English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science.  The test also has an optional Writing component.  In recent years, the ACT has dramatically increased its number of test-takers.  In fact, in 2011, the ACT surpassed the SAT as 1,666,017 students took the ACT and 1,664,479 students took the SAT.

To learn more about the ACT, visit http://bit.ly/actinfo .

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Did you know that the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy recently launched the Center on Policy Entrepreneurship?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

The new Center on Policy Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago will focus on “the politics of the policy making process.”  What does this mean?  Professor Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, the academic director of the Center, explains that it is important for students to learn how political realities impact policy ideas in order to change public policy effectively.  The program will boast a guest speaker series, a visiting fellows program and the funding of full-time summer internships in policy making environments.  University of Chicago alumni include community organizer Saul Alinsky, Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, and Nobel Prize winner Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

For more information about the Center on Policy Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago, visit http://bit.ly/UChicago_Center_on_Policy_Entrepreneurship.

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Did you know that the Rhode Island School of Design is creating an endowment supporting visiting scholars in the painting department?

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

The very pleased parents of a recent graduate funded this endowment through a generous gift, the largest gift from an international donor in the school’s 136 year history. In addition to funding visiting painting scholars, the Rhode Island School of Design, known affectionately as RISD (pronounced “RIZ-dee”), will also use the endowment to promote Indian art and culture amongst students. RISD alumni include fashion designer Nicole Miller, producer and animator Seth MacFarlane and artist Kara Walker.

For more information about RISD’s new painting endowment, visit http://bit.ly/RISD_painting_gift
To learn more about the Rhode Island School of Design, visit http://bit.ly/RISD_homepage

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Did you know that Harvard University has graduated a total of 8 U.S. presidents, more than any other university?

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

Harvard proudly boasts the following presidential alumni – John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Interested in the details of presidential times on the quad?  Visit http://bit.ly/prezalums to learn more!

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Did you know that Muhlenberg College is home to one of the most advanced theatre and dance facilities at a liberal arts college, offering its students access to two proscenium stages, two fully equipped studio theatres, six dance and acting studios, video editing and pilates studios, a new rehearsal house, and production facilities that include costume and scene shops, state-of –the-art lighting and computer design equipment?

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

Students who are serious about theatre and dance from across the country travel to the small town of Allentown, Pennsylvania to attend Muhlenberg College.  Their student organized, run, and performed productions are top quality, with such notable alumni as Michael Biren (Billy Elliot) and George Psomas (South Pacific), to name a few.

To learn more about what Muhlenberg’s theatre and dance programs, visit http://bit.ly/muhlenbergheatredance.

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Did you know that MIT can proudly claim alumni who engineered the following world-altering inventions – the world wide web, Doppler radar, GPS, the fax machine, and even Campbell’s Soup?

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is certainly no stranger to innovation.  It is one of the top research universities in the country.  The theme of creation pervades much of MIT life – the sports teams are affectionately called the “Engineers” – and the federal government itself, to date, has been the largest source of sponsored research at the school.

To learn more about The Engineers and, well, their engineering, visit http://bit.ly/mitinventions.

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Did you know that, with more than 50 colleges and universities within 50 square miles, Boston is the metropolitan area with the most accredited higher education institutions?

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

If you are looking for a great location to make a short college trip that will afford you the opportunity to visit several colleges and universities of varying sizes and feels, look no further than Boston, Massachusetts. Easily accessible by car, plane, train, and bus, you can plan a fruitful weekend college visit to the region.

For more information on Boston and its collegiate offerings, visit http://bit.ly/bostoncolluniv

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Did you know that, across all disciplines, Reed College produces more doctoral degree candidates that Harvard, MIT, or Princeton?

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Options for College| Leave a comment

Reed College, located in Portland, Oregon, has a longstanding tradition of academic excellence.  The lesser known of its rigorous peers, often attributed to its refusal to participate in college rankings, Reed provides Ivy-quality education without the pomp and circumstance.  It is also the only private undergraduate college in the country to have its own nuclear reactor.

To read more about what makes Reed uniquely competitive, visit http://bit.ly/reedphd.

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