The Ivy Group’s Executive director, lawyer Jeff Orleans, has announced that he will retire in mid-2008. Mr. Orleans has served in this position since 1984, making him one of the few people who is old enough to have been in office when yours truly, the Insider, was roaming the ivy-covered walls.
Congratulations to Mr. Orleans on [...]
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Just when it seems that admissions to the Ivy League couldn’t get any more competitive, it looks like top English students are beginning to look across the Atlantic for educational opportunities. Why? The simple answer appears to be the superior financial aid packages being offered by the best U.S. schools.
With the decline in public support [...]
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The Governor of New York State, Elliot Spitzer has proposed the creation of a $4 billion endowment to support public higher education. He would raise that endowment by selling or leasing some of the state’s lottery revenues to the private sector. As noted, some in state government have expressed discomfort with the use of gambling [...]
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OK, maybe that headline is a bit sensational, but it does look like admissions applications to UPenn are almost level this year compared to last. The other Ivies are seeing their applications climb at a significant rate, so maybe, this year at least, something has happened to affect the relative popularity of this Top Tier [...]
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High school students in the United Kingdom face similar concerns regarding costs as do their peers in the United States. Many select schools close to home just to minimize the overall price of their higher education. This raises special concerns for some disciplines like physics which are not generally taught at regional colleges and universities.
Of [...]
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The THES World University Ranking was released late last year by the Times Higher Education Supplement. It attempts to provide a common scheme on which the best universities worldwide may be identified. Number one on this scorecard was Harvard University, followed by a three-way tie for second place involving Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. The U.S. [...]
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The Insider has had the chance to review which articles are of the greatest interest to you, the reader, of Top Tier Insider, and it’s very clear that you want to see how the best colleges and universities rank versus each other, as well as against institutions outside of the Ivy League. Since we’re here [...]
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In spite of the tone of some articles, there’s going to be a much smaller national impact than people realize of recent financial aid changes announced at a few Ivy League schools. We’ve already suggested that there’s a real chance of a backlash here with hopeful parents being handed a nasty surprise when they face [...]
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Although the avalanche of applications inundating the admissions offices of American college and universities might make their directors smile, it does raise some complications. Everyone has a target class size for which they strive; both under-enrollment and over-enrollment can cause real problems for a university and can significantly shorten an admissions director’s tenure. Part of [...]
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It used to be that students spent the summers before going off to college earning money to fund their studies, but the new trend is for particularly eager (and financially gifted) potential Ivy League applicants to spend their high school summers in attractive study programs that help swell their admissions credentials. These programs can offer [...]
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