Want to know what’s going on in the admissions blogosphere? We’ve rounded up some recent posts for you to enjoy over your Monday morning coffee:

Everyone knows that researching colleges can be one of the most time-consuming parts of the admissions process.  Guide and Seek’s latest post spotlights InsideCollege, a site that vets colleges and groups them by a particular attribute to help students pare down (or build up) their own college list.  The post gives examples of InsideCollege lists including:  honors programs at a public university, loan-free education to low-income students, and colleges known for their school spirit.   There are over 700 lists to choose from.  The value added is that you may find new reasons to apply to college that you’ve never even considered before!  By the way, the site has a list of colleges with no tuition.

CollegeInSight, currently in beta, is another college search site picked up by the College Admissions Partners Blog.  This site allows for a search by statistics, so you are responsible for doing the actual research.

Allen’s College Admissions Blog highlights the tough competition facing students transferring into California’s state university system from its community colleges.

This morning’s blog post at The Choice is also about community colleges.  This post is about the entire nation’s overburdened community college system as gauged by the Community College Survey of Student Engagement.   You can also leave questions and comments for the director of the center for Community College Student Engagement, Kay McClenney, from the site.

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1. New York Times, The Choice

The Choice is a relatively new blog that provides context, from a variety of perspectives, for any student preparing to apply to college.  Two weeks ago, The Choice published a series of posts in which readers forwarded questions for William Fitzsimmons, the Harvard College Dean of Admissions.

2. The College Board

The place to register for the SAT and other College Board standardized tests.  The College Board was also one of the first organizations to bring useful information about the college application process online.  You can register for an SAT question of the day in either email or RSS formats, look up all the colleges in your state or conduct an advanced search of schools that fit your criteria, among other things.   I wouldn’t visit this site to get the latest admissions news (visit #1, The Choice, for that), but if you’re interested in college admissions generally, The College Board publishes reports and materials on the topic.

3. U.S. News and World Report

Each year, scores of editorials scrutinize the U.S. News and World Report methodology for ranking colleges and universities.  That being said, the site is the best comprehensive and accessible list of schools I’ve seen on the web.  And if you don’t like their rankings, just click on the A-Z Directory or do your own Advanced Search.

4. The Education Conservancy

I couldn’t in good conscience send you to U.S. News and World Report without recommending The Education Conservancy’s College Unranked also.  While U.S. News and World Report has an incredibly accessible college list that allows you to do a thorough search for schools, The Education Conservancy does a good job of explaining that finding the right college will have little to do with its ranking and everything to do with it being the right fit for you.

5. Colleges That Change Lives

First a book and now a website, Colleges That Change Lives has a focus similar to that of the The College Conservancy.  They both place an emphasis on a student-directed college search and application process.  The site offers facts and figures about colleges that fit their criteria for being standouts.