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...important respects, an education in physics is founded on the use of the Bunsen burner. Concentrators learn a great deal from the heating experience and contact between the open flame and the experimental materials, complementing the experience of problem sets and other laboratory work. Harvard does not admit physics undergraduates without the understanding that Bunsen burners will be an integral aspect of their education...
There aren't too many politicians in America who would dare admit they once frequented a strip club. Fewer still would cop to dating one of the dancers, especially if she had a nickname like the "Flame of Florida," or a habit of packing a switchblade in her purse. And among that select crowd, there are barely any who call themselves conservative Republicans, or would ever dare dream of running for President...
...they couldn't bear to call it by its name, instead christening it "the second cut" of the fairway. Their squeamishness gives some indication of how ardently Augusta honors its idiosyncratic traditions. Most infamously, the club, which was founded by the legendary golfer Bobby Jones in 1933, didn't admit a black member until 1990, and for decades all of the caddies that the club provided at the tournament were black. Even now, the club refuses to allow women to join...
...transfer applicant, nor do I mean to create an overly broad or unreal dichotomy between them and four-year students. I admit this theory may not bear out in every case. But it seems undeniable that as the feeding frenzy thrashes each year with more intensity and less good sense, Harvard stands to lose quickly more than a handful of NYU sweatshirts. Rather, a precious and still-resilient resource may become endangered: the supply of congenial, self-satisfied enrollees more interested in making friends than meeting recruiters or Pulitzer winners. What, then, will we tell applicants worried that the stodgy...
Like Harvard, which announced a record low admissions rate of 7.1 percent on Monday, other prestigious colleges saw more competitive admissions processes this year than in the past. Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale were among the schools that had their lowest admit rate on record this year. Yale admitted 1,892 of its 22,813 applicants—a rate of 8.3 percent, down from 9.5 percent for the class of 2011. Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent, Stanford University 9.5 percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other...