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According to Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68, who sat on the 5-person committee that invited Barenboim to Harvard, Barenboim was a natural choice for the Norton Lectures...
YALE HAS MADE a non-binding decision on early action: In a meeting last week, the school's board chose not to follow Harvard and Princeton in eliminating its early admissions program. But President Richard Levin tells the YDN: "That's not a final decision." Oh, the stress of college admissions...
...wavering at Yale is somewhat suprising, since Levin has long been critical of early admissions and, in 2002, sought approval from the Justice Department to drop the program along with other schools. Perhaps the YDN could explain what accounts for the newfound apprehension...
...moved to "accelerate" its review of the college's admissions program, the YDN observes. The school faces pressure to ax its non-binding, early-action program after Harvard did so earlier this month. Princeton followed suit, dropping its binding, early-decision program a week later. Yale President Richard Levin won't say what the committee will decide, but will say how often they'll meet: "more or less monthly." Only in higher education can that be considered accelerated...
...Yale boasted a yield of 71 percent this past year—far behind Harvard’s front-of-the-pack 80 percent mark but ahead of Princeton’s 69 percent.Yale officials did not return requests for comment yesterday. Yale President Richard C. Levin said last week that Yale would review its early admission policies.“The old adage is, ‘When Harvard sneezes, everyone else gets pneumonia,’” Bruce Breimer, director of college relations at the Collegiate School in New York, said last week. But will schools...