Filed / Lessons
May 17
Typically upon entering a taxi, I give the driver the address of my destination, mute the volume on the TV, and begin furiously emailing/texting/ calling everyone in my phone book to …
Filed / Top Five
May 11
Well, that’s the end of another another week. The weather for Mother’s Day is looking to be especially beautiful here in Boston so make sure you get outside to enjoy …
Filed / Top Five
May 04
It is officially May! Deposits are in the mail and students have decided where they are going to school in the Fall. In admissions news, MIT and Harvard unite, Facebook gives MBA candidates the edge, and schools battle it out …
Filed / Applicants
May 03
May 1. This is an infamous day in the world of college admissions. It’s often referred to as “National Candidate Reply Date,” or even “D-Day” (!), because at the majority of the nation’s colleges, this is the day when admitted students …
Filed / Top Five
Apr 28
Greetings from the floor of NAGAP in fabulous Austin, Texas. We have been following the student loan debate all week long, so much so that we dedicated two-fifths of our …
Filed / Applicants
Apr 23
Matchbox’s very own Peter Zotto discusses the importance of Coursera and other online learning platforms, and their role in the HigherEd landscape. Education in the today’s connected world – keep …
Filed / Top Five
Apr 20
In this week’s post, the success of MIT’s free online courses, the former Admissions Dean at Claremont McKenna College exaggerating the SAT scores of accepted students, the competition for elite foreign students, the validity of taking your ninth grader on …
Filed / Technology
Apr 17
It may seem like eons ago, but Facebook wasn’t always a social network heavily populated by moms, grandpas, big brands, your old college friends, and the guy that sits in …
Filed / Applicants
Apr 16
Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘Call Me Maybe’ is not the only “maybe” being heard by high school Seniors this year. One admissions trends that we have seen in 2012 is an increased number of students on the waitlist. However, this increased …
Filed / Top Five
Apr 13
As some wait-listed applicants are biting their nails until they hear from their schools, we saw some articles this past week that can help pass the time. There is a new tool to help students and parents calculate financial aid …
Filed / Technology
Apr 12
Ten years ago, a college student with a smartphone was about as common as snow in the Sahara. Research in Motion, after all, had just released its first iteration of the BlackBerry in 2002, and it was primarily marketed to …
Filed / Technology
Apr 08
Techcrunch reported that email use dropped 59 percent among users aged 12-17, as well as 8 percent overall, according to a ComScore report. So what is a school to do? …
Filed / Top Five
Apr 06
The Top 5 Stories Pertaining to College Admissions In this week’s post, Ben Nelson is taking a single-handed approach at reinventing the Ivy League and getting into Harvard is no …
Filed / Updates
Apr 05
Elizabeth Pabst joins Matchbox from the world of undergraduate admissions. We got to sit down with Elizabeth and learn a bit about her admissions history. What was your first job …
Filed / Technology
Apr 04
You’ve got an hour to kill before you meet with a group of high school students vying for admission to your college. So, you turn down Main Street in Humboldt, Nebraska (population: 793), and desperately scan for a place that …
Filed / Applicants
Apr 03
Decisions time is here! Our focus at Matchbox is to streamline the admissions process so that collegiate institutions can not only select the best candidates, but do so in a timely matter. A school’s ability to turn …
Filed / Travel
Mar 30
We are off on a plane once again! This time our destination is Philadelphia, PA for our first AACRAO Annual Meeting! We are sure that AACRAO attendees will be busy catching up with your fellow admissions and enrollment buddies, however …
Filed / Applicants
Mar 29
Invitations Acceptance letters have been sent, and now it is the schools’ turn to wait anxiously. Let yielding season begin! Most universities are tapping social media to connect with prospective students. With the multitude of social networks available, it …
Filed / Technology
Mar 28
Freshman year of college I brought to school what I deemed to be three very important items: A printer, a TV, and a hotplate. The printer went home after the first semester to sit in my garage. My school was …
Filed / Uncategorized
Mar 27
Mad Men. Mad Students. Fans of Mad Men waited 17 months to welcome their favorite debaucherous advertising executive into their living room. Millions of fans tuned in to see …
Filed / Updates
Mar 23
Boston makes it easy to get to work. And Matchbox makes it even easier. Searching for a job is a multi-faceted and often tedious process. There are several factors …
Filed / Technology
Mar 21
We put the dictation feature on the new iPad to the test, and almost made it through in one piece. As early adopters congregated in front of Apple Stores and their laptops last Friday to get their hands …
Filed / Applicants
Mar 20
College Admissions Recruiting Videos that have Caught our Attention. A few weeks back Matchbox made a little video letting people know about our super new hire. We have become even …
Filed / Technology
Mar 19
I read an interesting article the other day about asking Does Budget Transparency Improve Understanding? The simple answer it gave was, “No. Not on its own.” More is needed than …