Tagged: "Princeton"
Princeton Review Rankings Are Out
Should you consider college rankings, such as those recently published by The Princeton Review?
Harvard and Princeton Reinstate Their Early Action Decision Plans
Harvard and Princeton decide they need to reinstate their Early Action decision plans.
Early Admissions is Here to Stay Despite Critics
A few years ago, some commentators thought early admissions programs might fade away. But colleges love these programs too much to let them end.
Advice on College Admission, Standardized Testing from Michelle Obama
Students at Denver’s South High School played host to First Lady Michelle Obama this past Monday. Students asked the First Lady about standardized tests, getting into college, and her advice to them as they enter the world as adults. Here’s a snippet from the Denver Post article that reported on her visit. The Princeton University graduate, in [...]
Is An Expensive Private College Education Worth the Money? There's No Telling!
An opinion piece by John F. Wasik published yesterday at Bloomberg.com argues that the high tuition cost of Harvard and other high-priced colleges isn’t worth the money. Clearly, an elite, private education is a lot of money. But the argument that it’s a waste of money is impossible to refute. It’s equally futile to argue [...]
Top Colleges See Little Fall in Freshman Commitments
Jacques Steinberg of the New York Times reports today that Top Colleges See Little Fall in Freshman Commitments. Unsurprisingly, students offered admission to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Pomona are accepting those offers at more or less the same rates as in years past. All of these schools have increased their financial aid budgets this year [...]
Elite Colleges Take More Students from Waiting Lists
This was a brutal year for admissions to top colleges. The applicant pool was larger than ever before. Harvard and Princeton did away with their early decision programs. Many elite colleges, including the Ivies, Lafayette, Bowdoin, and Stanford, announced generous new financial aid policies. And many colleges increased the size of their waiting lists, in [...]
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