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...early admissions program about to be tossed into the collegiate wastebin, Princeton’s prospective class of 2011 scrambled to capitalize on the final year of early applications. This year, Princeton received 2,275 early decision applications, a two percent increase over last year’s pool, according to Lauren D. Robinson-Brown, Princeton’s director of communications. “It is the second largest ED applicant pool since ED started ten years ago,” Robinson-Brown wrote in an e-mail yesterday. The record for largest applicant pool...
...tickets are important for the UC elections, injecting unconventional, innovative ideas into what otherwise can too easily deteriorate into stolid, insular debates. The competition allows issues and platforms to come to light that might otherwise be neglected in the dialogue of just a couple mainstream candidates. When the candidate pool is thick, minority viewpoints are given a voice and the most fundamental issues can be brought to light and discussed—for example, the elimination of the UC is the hallmark of Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08?...
...Nehamas is one of the typically 4,000 hopeful students who send in applications for Harvard’s Early Action program, which allows students to apply early without obliging them to attend. Disadvantaged students tend to be underrepresented in the Early Action pool in favor of students who are white, wealthy, and well connected. In other words, students like Nehamas...
...Jolene A. Lane, executive director of LEDA. “Philosophically, anyone can participate in the college process. But in reality people don’t have the information to apply. There are counselors who’ve never heard of SAT IIs. Students are eliminated from the candidate pool because of a lack of information about and emphasis on tests...
...number of bad TFs constitutes a very small minority in the vast pool of section leaders, according to Driver-Linn...