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Princeton and Virginia saw their applicant pools rise by six and four percent, respectively, according to The New York Times. Other elite universities have seen major jumps in applicants as well, with the University of Chicago and Amherst College recording 18 percent and 17 percent increases...
Fitzsimmons said that effects of most new programs are usually not fully seen for three to five years after their inception, though he noted that there has been a 33-percent increase in the number of students whose families earn under $80,000 in the past three years, and that these undergraduate now comprise roughly 25-percent of the student body...
...study by researchers at Harvard Medical School found that from 1997 to 2004, waits increased an average of 36 percent. And for the most severe cases, the wait increased by 40 percent...
...hold-up was worst for heart attacks victims, who in 1997 waited an average of eight minutes. By 2004, it had increased by 150 percent, to 20 minutes...
Wilper, a primary care physician and a student at Harvard School of Public Health, said that the number of emergency room visits had increased by nearly 20 percent between 1994 and 2004, which he attributed to “a lack of available primary care...