Princeton University has released details of a gap year program under which recently admitted students can defer their studies for the year after high school to participate in international service programs. This seems an interesting idea because it lets young students focus on the issues faced by cultures other than their own at a time [...]
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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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An article in PC World recently noted that Macintosh users at Princeton University rose from 31% to 41% in the year ending in 2007. That’s an extraordinary increase, probably reflecting the increasing utility of the Mac in a wide spectrum of applications. That Intel-based Macs can now also run Windows is no small plus either. [...]
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The 2007 annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation has been released and it lists the top schools attracting Merit Scholars nationally. Harvard ranks first immediately followed by Yale, Princeton, and Stanford. The Top Tier schools dominate the rankings, with MIT, Duke, and Rice joining them in the top ten. The University of Michigan [...]
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Princeton’s trustees voted to increase its tuition by 3.9%, along with a large increase in its financial aid budget to ensure maintenance of diversity in its incoming class. Over 50% of the current freshman class receives financial aid, with the average grant being more than $31,000. Including room and board, the list price for the [...]
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The recent announcement by Yale and other Top Tier universities to reach further into their endowments to lessen the impact of tuition costs on upper-middle class families hasn’t impressed many people. No one doubts that these are positive steps, but they represent only small, incremental approaches to a much more significant set of issues.Specifically, the [...]
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Of the ten universities posting a significant amount of educational material on YouTube, none is among the Top Tier (as narrowly defined by us), but there are some excellent schools on the list, including UC Berkeley, Duke, MIT, Vanderbilt and Purdue. Princeton does contribute to UChannel which focuses on international and political affairs. One could [...]
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OK, maybe it’s a bit of a stretch, but researchers from Princeton University, the EPA and the US Forest Service are helping the National Football League offset the carbon footprint of the upcoming Super Bowl near Phoenix. While it’s a good thing to offset 350 tons of carbon emission from the 3,000 (!) vehicle fleet [...]
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That headline says it all: Princeton University has named Logan Powell to be the new director of admission. He previously served at Bowdoin and Harvard University.
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The decision by Princeton and Harvard to end early admissions appears to have caused increased early admit traffic at other Top Tier institutions. As a result, these schools have been able to reduce the acceptance rate of early admission applications significantly. Only the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford saw declines in the number of early [...]
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