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Yale Class of 2015

cs — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:34:47 +0000

Class of 2015 admit rate lowest ever

In line with its peer institutions, Yale’s [...]

Princeton Class of 2015

cs — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:29:36 +0000

Princeton makes offers to 8.39 percent of applicants in record admission cycle

Princeton University has offered admission to 2,282 students, or 8.39 percent, of the record 27,189 applications for the class of 2015 in what may be the most selective admission process in the University’s history. This compares with Princeton’s final admission rates of 8.8 percent [...]

Harvard Class of 2015

cs — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:25:50 +0000

Harvard Accepts Record Low 6.2 Percent of Applicants to the Class of 2015 An all-time low of 6.2 percent of applicants were offered admission to the Harvard College Class of 2015, beating records for the sixth consecutive year in what reflects a trend of increasing selectivity both at Harvard and at other top-tier universities.

Notification letters were [...]

Rewriting Macroeconomics Curriculum

cs — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:12:28 +0000

IN MORE than 30 years of teaching introductory macroeconomics, says Alan Blinder of Princeton University, he has never seen interest as high as it was last year. At Harvard, says David Laibson, students in his undergraduate macroeconomics course are “chomping at the bit”.

At elite American universities, where endowments have shrivelled and hiring is down, increased [...]

University Predating Harvard and Oxford

cs — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:01:59 +0000

Built in 427 AD, world’s first university predating Harvard and Oxford.

At a summit meeting of leaders next week in the Philippines, senior officials from India, Singapore, Japan and perhaps other countries [...]