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It’s called “National Signing Day,” and in southern-fried football states, it’s a national holiday. Yesterday—under intense scrutiny and a glaring media spotlight—the best prep football players in the country signed binding contracts to play for their chosen colleges...
Though students flock to Ivy League universities for a first-rate education, they may want to consider looking elsewhere when it comes to standardized testing, according to a study released last week by Kaplan Test Prep...
...Despite the Ivy League schools’ excellent and well-deserved reputation overall, many of them were ranked quite low by our students,” said Justin Serrano, executive director of Kaplan Test Prep...
...President had the slightest sense of irony, he might have paused to ask himself, "Wait a minute. How did I get into Yale?" It wasn't because of any academic achievement: his high school record was ordinary. It wasn't because of his life experience--prosperous family, fancy prep school--which was all too familiar at Yale. It wasn't his SAT scores: 566 verbal and 640 math...
They may not have had an explicit point system at Yale in 1964, but Bush clearly got in because of affirmative action. Affirmative action for the son and grandson of alumni. Affirmative action for a member of a politically influential family. Affirmative action for a boy from a fancy prep school. These forms of affirmative action still go on. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Harvard accepts 40% of applicants who are children of alumni but only 11% of applicants generally. And this kind of affirmative action makes the student body less diverse, not more...