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Course: College admissions > Unit 6
Lesson 3: Special thanks to contributorsSpecial thanks to contributors
Throughout the creation of this college admissions resource, Khan Academy relied heavily on contributions from admissions experts along with currrent college students and alumni. Their input was invaluable, and we want to take a moment to thank them and recognize them for all of their hard work:
Admissions officer contributors
- Brown University
- Christopher Belcher, Louis Trujillo
- Dartmouth College
- Francisco Herrera
- Georgetown University - Jaime Briseño, Melissa Foy, Margaret Lysy
- Stanford University
- Tania Castro Bradt, Karen Cooper, Sally Dickson, Richard Shaw
- University of California, Berkeley
- Michele Butler, Rachelle Feldman, Amy Jarich
- University of Illinois
- Quinton Clay, Mike Drish
- University of Virginia
- Valerie Gregory, Scott Miller, Greg Roberts
- Yale University
- Chelsea Allen, Jeremiah Quinlan
Guidance counselors / admissions expert contributors
- Eastside College Preparatory School
- Anna Takahashi
- KIPP Bay Area - Sharon Cravanas
- Making Waves
- Sherry Smith
- Phillips Academy Andover
- Sean Logan, Jim Ventre
- Students Rising Above
- Lorna Contreras, Barb Hendricks
Other contributors
In addition to the individuals listed above, there were many additional people who helped us to source interviews or review materials whom we want to thank:
- Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula
- Peter Fortenbaugh, Sean Mendy
- First Graduate
- Tom Ahn, Ann Schnuer
- KIPP Bay Area - Casey Robertson
- Students Rising Above
- Lynne Martin
- USA Funds
- Tiffany Reese
College students and recent alumni contributors
Last but certainly not least, we want to recognize the current college students and recent alumni who contributed to this project. Though their names (and generally their colleges) have been omitted from the videos for privacy purposes, we want to extend a huge thank you for all of the deeply meaningful college admissions stories that these students shared.
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i am from chinese. and what can i do to apply for a further education on aboard(6 votes)
First of all, what do you want to study (Field Major/Degree)?(4 votes)
- What about Harvard, why do I see it totally ignored in this process?(2 votes)
There are hundreds and hundreds of colleges that could have been used in the videos. It would be impossibly long and boring to have them all. Instead, there are representative colleges and universities shown here, including public and private, East coast and West coast. So, Harvard would be similar to Yale and Stanford in terms of selectivity, but things that were said about applying and receiving financial aid were not about these specific schools that were represented, but instead were about all these types of schools. Even if the person who was talking was from Yale, you can apply what was said to any other selective school, and also, to just about any other college or university. You can be confident that the processes of applying and choosing would be very similar.
For more information about Harvard in particular, guess what! You can google Harvard undergraduate application and find just about all the same stuff that you saw here, with the exception that Harvard will show up as the name!(6 votes)
This journey was very informative. What I would like to know is if we can extend the series to include topics relating to selecting, applying and paying for Graduate School? I am aware that there are Graduate Assistant, Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant type of jobs on most University campuses. Perhaps there could be some discussion of that here? And of course the many other questions that come from an interest in Graduate Education.(3 votes)- i have completed all course of college admission ...will i be recognized for this?(2 votes)
but if you complete all course of Mathematic, you will get lots of badgets for sure.(2 votes)
- think this would be a great idea. As Khan Academy matures, some users will continue to access it (and perhaps some will start in their adult years). It could be a good place to help guide us through the full academic journey!(2 votes)
So now I am an Egyption student wanna to study mechatronics and searching for scholarships cause do not have enough >> thanks Khan Academy(2 votes)- Do you have any studies dealing with Healthcare Management?(2 votes)