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This year Harvard had a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. Book of Odds, a Web site which describes itself as “a reference on the odds of everyday life,” has converted that number into betting style odds...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Odds | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard was listed as the toughest school to get into—for every 14.23 students who applied, just one was accepted.  At Yale, the school with the second-lowest odds of admission in the Ivies, the chances were...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Odds | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

Based on these odds, the chances that you will make it to the age of 96 (assuming you live until age 13) are greater than those of getting into Harvard or Yale. Said another way, you’re more likely to live to attend your 70th college reunion than you are to be admitted to either school in the first place...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Odds | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...After Harvard students begged for dryness during last week's torrential downpours, water flow decreased not only from the skies, but also from an unexpected source as well—the water dispensers in the campus d-halls...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Drawing Water: Mild Effort Now Required | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...change? We at FlyBy thought there may have been an epic story of a dining hall flood to blame,  or that the environmental groups had decided to bring reform to water dispensing at Harvard. Apparently, the modification came for a much less exciting reason...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Drawing Water: Mild Effort Now Required | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

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