About
What's a wiki, anyway?
Wiki is a Hawai'ian word meaning "quick" or "fast."
Wikis are simple, editable websites that have the capability of letting more than one person contribute and/or edit content. They're great for encouraging collaboration, negotiation, and synthesis.
How did this all get started?
Shelley Krause, the lead curator of this site, is a high school college counselor at the amazing Rutgers Preparatory School in Somerset, NJ. She is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
When searching for schools that offer programs in a particular field, counselors and students should probably start off by trying to Find Colleges By Major. And there are lots of College Search Tools out there.
Still, there are many cases in which the search engines won't help you. What if what you're looking for has less to do with academic offerings, and more to do with extracurricular opportunities? Or policies with regards to required courses? These kinds of questions crop up on the listserv on a regular basis, and this is where Scott White comes in.
Scott White, a fellow college counselor who has now retired from the excellent Montclair High School, used to annually compile a kind of "master list" of schools by category and generously shared it with his colleagues via the NACAC listserv. Many counselors came to depend on him to help tame the otherwise unruly assortment of lists that come down the listserv pipe or land on our desks via other means.
The initial data population of this wiki consisted largely of Scott's work. (Thank you, Scott!) Now the College Lists Wiki is an excellent exemplar of the old proverb, "Many hands make light work."
Wiki is a Hawai'ian word meaning "quick" or "fast."
Wikis are simple, editable websites that have the capability of letting more than one person contribute and/or edit content. They're great for encouraging collaboration, negotiation, and synthesis.
How did this all get started?
Shelley Krause, the lead curator of this site, is a high school college counselor at the amazing Rutgers Preparatory School in Somerset, NJ. She is a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
When searching for schools that offer programs in a particular field, counselors and students should probably start off by trying to Find Colleges By Major. And there are lots of College Search Tools out there.
Still, there are many cases in which the search engines won't help you. What if what you're looking for has less to do with academic offerings, and more to do with extracurricular opportunities? Or policies with regards to required courses? These kinds of questions crop up on the listserv on a regular basis, and this is where Scott White comes in.
Scott White, a fellow college counselor who has now retired from the excellent Montclair High School, used to annually compile a kind of "master list" of schools by category and generously shared it with his colleagues via the NACAC listserv. Many counselors came to depend on him to help tame the otherwise unruly assortment of lists that come down the listserv pipe or land on our desks via other means.
The initial data population of this wiki consisted largely of Scott's work. (Thank you, Scott!) Now the College Lists Wiki is an excellent exemplar of the old proverb, "Many hands make light work."