Word: poolfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lack the profit imperative that drives corporations, but they are just as fiercely competitive, always striving to get the best students, the best scholars, the best grants in order to attain the most prestige. Like every other top-tier institution, Penn seeks to attract as large an applicant pool as possible so as to admit as small a percentage of it as possible to fill its available places (a low "admit rate," considered an index of exclusivity). But it hopes most of those admitted will actually enroll (a high "yield," considered a mark of quality). Harvard, the gold standard, last...
...wrote, "Don't like it, but..." then went ahead and raised it. The cost to a school of defying the group was simply too high. A Dartmouth official fretted, "We would effectively be out of the Ivy League, and this would have a serious impact on our applicant pool...
...difference-making regional in your pool, the one which will determine whether you can do your already-rehearsed celebratory "Show me the money" dance, will be the Midwest...
...winning the pool is getting at least three teams in the Final Four. And, of course, having the championship game right...
...report suggested that the percentage of tenured women faculty should match the "availability pool"--the proportion of women who received Ph.D.s from Harvard 10 years earlier...