New Business School Rankings

Hello!
For those who are interested in the latest rankings for undergraduate business schools, here they are, the top 51:

http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/112273/best-undergraduate-b-schools-2011

For those who applied to Tulsa this year, we did well, predicting their rise ... all the way to #33, ahead of USC, Northeastern and Maryland, to name just a few!

Granted, I don't think rankings are always the most accurate and I hate how they are used as marketing devices, but what we're all looking for is a global network and, as you will see in the article which introduces the rankings, that is the emphasis with undergraduate business schools, also!

Excellent. Take good care.
-B

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Important Reading for the Ranking Obsessed

http://www.ctcl.org/files/pdfs/RankingsNewYorkerGladwell-1.pdf

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Gap Year Thoughts for the New Year

Happy 2011 to all.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513204576047723922275698.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_careerjournal


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Brady Norvall, M.A.
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Ease Up on Expectations

Just a little read in the middle of our annual HIGH EXPECTATION, HIGH PRESSURE season:
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/12/12/stress-and-the-high-school-student/reconsider-attitudes-about-success

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Brady Norvall, M.A.
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Heads Up Foreign Students

It's a good time to be international!

http://www.slate.com/id/2276200/


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Brady Norvall, M.A.
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Read What You'd Like ... It's All Fantastic

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/11/06/education/edlife/index.html?hp

Enjoy!
-Brady

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Brady Norvall, M.A.
FindabetterU.com
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A Letter From a Freshman

This is an email that I just received tonight from a student of mine who is in his freshman year at a really wonderful university. It made me extremely proud and I just thought that I would share it. Note: he even sends regards to Lucy. What a gentleman! I taught him that.

-Brady

Brady,

Dude, I felt like this article was you speaking: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/opinion/26gradstudents.html?pagewanted=1&ref=homepage&src=me… It made me think a lot!

 

Brady, I can't thank you enough for pushing me to leave home when I was making my college decision. I would've missed out on so much if I had stayed back home. I don't know what it is about not being home, but it really has this sort of "vibe", I guess, to strive harder and to survive, since its my only option. Considering the fact that mom and dad aren't here for me to solve my problems anymore. It'll sound crazy, maybe, but this "vibe" motivates me, and has forced me to meet people totally different from me, which is a great thing. Unfortunately for those who stay home, you can't feel the "vibe" until you leave and enter college. So many people will never feel it. That's why it's good to have people like you, pushing people like me, to leave home.

So thanks again dude!

                Tell Lucy I say hi!

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Brady Norvall, M.A.
FindabetterU.com
collegecounseling101.blogspot.com
Education Counseling
954.254.7113