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Dean of Admissions for Harvard College William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 surprised many in the academic community in September when he suggested that there may be a time in the near future when the SAT—which is currently required of all Harvard applicants??would cease to be an essential part of the application. Ditching the SAT has become trendy in recent years, as prestigious colleges like Bowdoin and Mt. Holyoke have joined middle-of-the-road schools like Pitzer and Hamilton in going SAT-optional...
...just invaluable to have so many wonderful people to bounce my ideas off of,” said Pooley, a former managing editor of Fortune Magazine. Prospective fellows are chosen by a selection committee headed by Shorenstein Center director Alex S. Jones. Jones said the committee considers both the applicants?? career background and intended research topic when selecting the fellows. “The fellowship program is so prestigious, I was happy to even get to apply,” said Edward Schumacher-Matos, the founding editor of The Wall Street Journal Americas and a former Buenes Aires...
...Applicants?? disappointment is entirely reasonable. They spent the time and money compiling a compelling application, never thinking that it might be doomed to languish, unread and in pieces, in a Harvard bureaucrat’s shredder. That sucks...
...colleges around the country notify high school seniors of their admission decisions, the College Board released a series of studies last week that call for a reassessment of ways that universities have traditionally predicted applicants?? future college performance. The studies, which were presented at the conference of the American Educational Research Association last week, recommend that universities seriously consider other measurements of predictive performance outside of grade point average and standardized test scores. For example, colleges could request that applicants complete a questionnaire presenting different scenarios that would reveal interpersonal skills and personal discipline, University of Minnesota professor...
...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 elite universities faced challenging admissions decisions too. While...