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...runs an interesting piece on websites that predict your chances of getting into particular schools: Questions range from the basic to the blunt. ThickEnvelope, for example, asks clients: "Would you say that your mother or father is a nationally recognized, very important person or well-known celebrity?"What the DP doesn't do, but could have, is pay for some ex-post-facto predicting, checking to see if the sites are any good at guessing whether current Penn students would be admitted to the school...
...Cornell is on vacation. The Dartmouth stretches the limits of a slow-news day. And the Yale Daily News' website says its outgoing editors were to publish their "Joke Issue" today, but in a tragic turn of events, it's not online! Hey, guys, why so shy? The DP publishes its joke issue for all the world...
MONEY MATTERS AT Penn, Brown, and Yale! With investment returns of 12.5 percent last fiscal year, Penn's endowment grew to $5.3 billion, the DP reports. That return was handily beaten by Harvard (16.7 percent) and Yale (22.9 percent), but don't worry, the DP says "officials are confident Penn is catching up to these institutions." Despite all evidence to the contrary...
BROWN MAY CONVERT some single-sex bathrooms to gender-neutral bathrooms after student requests, the Herald reports. The Columbia Spectator has a college-focused take on the Internet poker ban currently making its way through Congress. And the DP asks the new freshman class president why he uses his middle name, not what he plans to do in office...
...travels to Cambridge this weekend. Surprised by reporters outside her hotel, Gutmann sort-of repeated her sort-of denial of any interest in the Harvard presidency, but her mere presence in the vicinity of the Yard is likely to dominate talk among Ivy watchers this week. Will the DP get on her case tomorrow? Their opinion blog is already...