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Student-to-Faculty Ratios: A Bogus Statistic You Should Ignore

May 13, 2009 No Comments

Student-to-faculty ratios mislead. While they are oft-cited indicators of teaching quality, these ratios have no bearing on an individual student’s educational experience.

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Applications to Harvard pass the 29,000 mark

January 23, 2009 No Comments

The Yale Daily News reports that over 26,000 high school seniors applied for admission to Yale. Applications to Harvard have passed the 29,000 mark. So

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Quality of the Educational Experience: Questions to Ask Admissions Officers

March 31, 2008 No Comments

A couple of my previous posts have focused on student-to-faculty ratios and class size averages as indicators of educational quality. By and large, my conclusion