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Filed / Lessons

May 17

Gac Filipaj and Co: Today’s Higher Ed Heroes

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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

Admissions Week in Review: Our Top 5 HigherEd Stories

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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

The Week in Review: The Top Five Admissions Stories

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 1st: Admissions Decision Day Has Arrived

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

The Week in Review: The Top Five Admissions Stories

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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

Coursera, Minerva, and the Successful Student

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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

The Week in Review: Top Five Admissions Stories

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

5 Schools with Phenomenal Facebook Pages

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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

Inventive Waitlisted Students Leave a Lasting Impression

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

The Week in Review: Top Five Admissions Stories

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

Top Apps for Universities to Interact with Students

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

How schools use Facebook to increase yield

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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

Admissions Week in Review

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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

Harvard Admissions Officer Joins Team Matchbox

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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

5 Fantastic Apps for Admissions Road Warriors

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

Admissions Decision Letters Impact Yield

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

AACRAO: Our Guide to Philly

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

The Social Chair: An Admissions Party

  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

Hot Ticket Item

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

High School Seniors: The New Mad Men.

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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

No Car? No Problem.

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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

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

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

Music and Humor and Smiles … OH MY!

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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

Max Talks: Context Engineering & Matchbox

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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 …