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Asked if the schools ever held such discussions, Rudenstine said. "There may will have been some people who had some informal discussions about that, but the only formal meetings that ever took place that were systematically, intentionally and deliberately comparative were overlap meetings having to do with student...
...past interviews, Harvard and other Ivy League officials have consistently denied ever discussing planned tuition rats, faculty salaries, or other budget information. The schools said they only shared student financial aid information in annual "overlap" meetings...
...neighboring colleges to share talents and facilities, particularly in arcane specialties. For example, one-third of the graduate students in a cognitive-psychology class at Carnegie-Mellon University are actually enrolled at the nearby University of Pittsburgh. Many experts believe that much more can be done to eliminate overlap. "Worcester County in Massachusetts has at least five colleges," says Arnold Hiatt, chairman of the Stride Rite Corp. and a member of that state's Higher Education Coordinating Council. "If one has an outstanding physics department, it would make sense for the other four to phase out physics and build their...
...addition, some incoming students say they are confused by the widely disparaging aid offers they have received as a result of the breakup of the Overlap Group, a consortium of colleges which until recently jointly determined aid awards...
Most of the gender differences that have been uncovered so far are, statistically speaking, quite small. "Even the largest differences in cognitive function are not as large as the difference in male and female height," Hines notes. "You still see a lot of overlap." Otherwise, women could never read maps and men would always be lefthanded. That kind of flexibility within the sexes reveals just how complex a puzzle gender actually is, requiring pieces from biology, sociology and culture...