Although most of the recent news concerning undergraduate admissions has focused on increased competition involving more students applying for the same number of seats, both Yale and Harvard are developing plans to significantly expand the size of their undergraduate classes.
According to Yale president Richard Levin, the university will build additional dorms for two new [...]
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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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There’s nothing terribly new in the source article for this note, but it’s a worthy review of the state of play in Washington regarding the endowment payment controversy that is now impacting elite colleges and universities. Certainly, pressure from the Senate has had a significant role in increasing the flow of funds from the largest [...]
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Some students entering CSU Chico (as appears to be the case at Yale University among others) will be required to purchase Apple Macintosh computers next year. The machines will be configured with the correct hardware and software to ensure that students can take full advantage of campus resources to support their studies. As can be [...]
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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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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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To the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever worked at a college or university, the scheduling of classes at Yale University appears to follow no particular pattern of good practice. Rather, classes are put in time slots of optimal convenience to students and faculty. Few classes are scheduled for Monday mornings, and almost [...]
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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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Most everyone who has any money invested in the stock market knows the name of the world’s most successful investor, Warren Buffett, but how many people know the name David Swensen? If you’re like me, you didn’t know that he’s the director of Yale University’s investment office, and over the last 20 years, Yale’s investments [...]
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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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