Word: peering
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...rate,” now stands at 40 percent—the lowest rate since 1989. The rate fluctuated throughout the 1990s, peaking most recently in 2001 when it reached 48 percent.Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella M. Rapier said Harvard has compared its numbers to eight peer institutions, and participation rates have recently declined at four. Three schools have maintained constant rates, and one school’s rate has increased.Princeton University is considered a leader in alumni participation; according to its website, its rate is unchanged since 2001 at about 59 percent. But Harvard has traditionally...
...think scholarships are the main thing,” Sullivan says. “Guys get into this recruiting game hoping to get a scholarship, and I think there’s a lot of peer pressure to go to the highest available school...
...would be huge, [but] it doesn’t happen as much,” Sullivan said of a player like Szczerbiak choosing an Ivy school. “You see more peer pressure than we’ve ever had to make decisions to go to the highest level of basketball. Ten years ago, it was a little bit different. Kids wanted to be pioneers—you weren’t as saturated with the big dance and the media attention that Division I college basketball has gotten...
...admissions office does not admit a fixed number of its Early Action applicants, he explained. Instead, it considers each application on a case-by-case basis. Columbia, Duke, and Stanford all saw slight increases in the size of their early applicant pools this fall. Spokespeople for several other peer schools were not available for comment last night or said that they had not yet released their early-admission figures. Fitzsimmons said the number of students this fall requesting fee waivers on their applications is almost identical to the number last year, when the fraction of students asking for waivers jumped...
They host traveling information sessions with representatives from Georgetown, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, and other peer schools. With “well over half” of applicants now applying online, according to Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, the admissions website has recently been revamped, adding interactive video, campus tours, and student testimonials...