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Ivy League stories: 32 news summaries

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Top Colleges Report Record Low Rates of Admission

Harvard accepts just 7% of applicants

Apr 1, 08 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Acceptance letters from the nation's top colleges will begin to arrive on prospective students' doorsteps today, but far more rejection letters are in the mail than ever before, reports the New York Times. Harvard and Yale accepted only 7.1% and 8.3% of applicants, respectively, both record lows... More »

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education • Columbia University • Yale University • Ivy League • college admissions • college • university • Dartmouth • Harvard • college applications

March Madness

Stanford Closes
Book on Cornell

No. 3 proves greater than No. 14, if only in sports

Mar 20, 08 9:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cornell entered today’s game against Stanford with a 16-game winning streak, and watching the first 10 minutes or so of the game would have led some to believe they could pull off No. 17, and a huge upset in the process. Then the Stanford Cardinal came alive, going on... More »

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Ivy League • Stanford Cardinal • Pac-10 Conference • Cornell Big Red • Kenny Brown • Lawrence Hill

Ivy Aid May Hit 2nd-Tier Schools

Big scholarships could siphon top students who couldn't afford Harvard

Mar 5, 08 12:35 PM CST
(Newser) - It’s easy to applaud the generosity the Ivy League is lavishing on the middle class, but it could have unintended consequences, Newsweek notes. Second-tier schools and elite public universities rely on the highly talented middle-class kids Harvard and company are targeting. “Schools compete hard for those students,... More »

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Ivy League • higher education • middle class • Harvard • financial aid • endowment • Colgate University

OPINION

Are Black Immigrants Black?

Debra Dickerson on the divide between 'native' and 'immigrant' blacks

Mar 1, 08 7:31 PM CST
(Newser) - The notion that a black American must be a “descendant of West African slaves brought here to labor for whites against their will” just reinforces the “invisibility that black immigrants face in America,” Debra Dickerson writes in Mother Jones. But she can’t escape it herself,... More »

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education • Barack Obama • African Americans • Ivy League • West Africa • black community • African • Debra Dickerson • West Indies • Malcolm X • Marcus Garvey

Harvard Hoops Recruiting Questioned

Some say school has lowered its standards, skirted NCAA rules

Mar 1, 08 5:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Harvard may have done some un-Ivy League like things to upgrade its basketball program, reports the New York Times. Harvard, which hasn't played in the NCAA Tournament since 1946, is coming under fire for its recruiting tactics. “We don’t know how all this is going to come out,... More »

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NCAA basketball • Ivy League • James Jones • recruiting • Harvard

Yale Ups Endowment Spending

Rich schools slammed for sitting on wealth

Jan 8, 08 8:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Yale will significantly increase spending from its $22.5 billion endowment next year—providing more financial aid and launching new research. The university will draw $1.15 billion from its endowment compared with $843 million last year. The decision comes after Yale and other top universities were criticized for sitting... More »

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Yale University • Ivy League • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • financial aid • endowment • Richard Levin • spending rule

OPINION

Harvard Offers Middle-Class Parents Help*

*And pre-empts legislation far costlier
for superrich schools

Dec 31, 07 3:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Generosity isn't what's fueling Harvard’s new $22 million giveaway to the middle class—it’s greed, educational consultant Steven Roy Goodman writes in the Boston Globe. Harvard’s giving the extra financial aid as a PR move, hoping to squash brewing legislation that would force universities to spend... More »

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Ivy League • higher education • nonprofit • Harvard • college tuition • colleges and universities • financial aid • endowment

UK Students Choosing Ivies Over Oxbridge

Financial aid, academic freedom lure record number of Brits

Dec 24, 07 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - A record number of British students are forsaking Oxford and Cambridge to apply to elite American schools, the Times of London reports. Lured by more generous financial aid packages and less restrictive curricula, students are crossing the pond to the Ivy League. Yale's applications from Britain, for one, have tripled... More »

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Ivy League • college admissions • Oxford University • Cambridge University

In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

Funding gap widens breach between Ivies, public schools

Dec 3, 07 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in... More »

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Princeton University • Yale University • Ivy League • Stanford University • Harvard • brain drain

Getting into Harvard not as Easy as P-R-E-P

Elite colleges taking more students from abroad, public schools

Dec 1, 07 4:19 PM CST
(Newser) - Ivy-League-seeking parents beware: admissions officers at top schools around the country are looking for more than just the private-school preppie. While private and prep schools still lead the way, a growing percentage of students at elite universities are public school grads and international scholars, the Wall Street Journal reveals.... More »

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Duke University • high school • Ivy League • college admissions • MIT • University of Chicago • Cornell University • Johns Hopkins University • University of Pennsylvania • Harvard • Princeton • Williams • Pomona • Swarthmore • Phillips Academy • Brown University

Ivy League Logjam
Trickles Down

Applications—and rejections—up at second-tier colleges

May 16, 07 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Top-tier colleges are getting more applicants than ever, the Times reports, allowing a new class of schools to court—and reject—the overachievers increasingly turned away from the Ivy League. Universities like Bucknell, Colgate and Lehigh are tightening standards as students with top SATs and grades seek higher learning lower... More »

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Ivy League • college admissions • admission • university • student

Valedictorians Halted At
Ivy Gates

Rejections hit 90%
at most prestigious schools

Apr 5, 07 8:07 AM CDT
(Newser) -  With competition at top colleges more ferocious than ever, most Ivy League schools accepted under 10% of applicants for the first time, the Times reports. Tony schools like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton turned away valedictorians and students with perfect SAT scores and GPAs, much to the shock of... More »

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high school • Columbia University • Princeton University • Yale University • SAT • Ivy League • college • admission • university • Harvard

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