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...Amherst, financial aid officers have followed Princeton’s lead and discontinued debt for low-income students. Parker says that the average graduating debt of a low-income student at his school is zero, a number that makes the college’s pitch quite attractive...
...critics argue, good intentions for diversity do not always win out over the bottom line. It’s a simple equation: the costs of diversity outweigh the benefits. The more low-income students a school accepts, they say, the lower its U.S. News and World Report rankings fall. Parker charges that four schools in the Ivy League in particular—Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and Dartmouth—sacrifice socioeconomic diversity for U.S. News glory...
...increasing its yields (the ratio of those who are admitted versus those who finally attend). To do that, some admissions offices pad their incoming classes with high scorers and early admits, whose higher likelihood of attendance pushes acceptance rates down and yield up, says Amherst’s Parker, an outspoken critic on this issue...
...Parker, who notably exempts Harvard from this category of rankings-obsessed mavericks, calls the overall game “scandalous...
...even the behind-the-scenes MC himself can’t answer every question. He recalls handling Sarah Jessica Parker at the Pudding’s 2002 Woman of the Year celebration. “She came in and handed me her coat. I put her coat up. The minute I turn around, all these women rush me and want to know what the label on her coat is. I’m a guy, I don’t know these things...