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Online gamblers are giving Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy better odds at being named Harvard’s 28th president than any candidate not currently on Harvard’s payroll. But, after publishing an op-ed yesterday calling the reasoning behind Harvard’s decision to eliminate early admission “faulty,” Etchemendy told The Crimson he has no ambitions to leave his post at Stanford...
...Stanford is not, at this time, going to make any change to its early admission program,” Etchemendy wrote in the e-mail. “My greatest fear, however, is that with Harvard and Princeton ending their early programs, the applications to Stanford’s early program will explode, making it unmanageable. That remains to be seen...
...Stanford provost did not propose simply to leave early admission policies as they stand now. Instead, he wrote, colleges should “universally adopt nonbinding early admission programs, and then apply the same or higher standards to the early decisions as they do to the regular round. It’s a solution that’s fair for the students and practical for the colleges...
...funding research that often doesn’t get funding,” explained a spokesman for Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences, Michael P. Rutter. Since its inception, the foundation has opened 10 institutes around the world dedicated to furthering research in the three areas, including sites at Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, according to the foundation’s website. “We identify possible sites by asking scientists, people in the know, what the centers of excellence of research in these three areas are,” foundation spokesman Das explained...
Yale’s endowment return rate also eclipsed that of the third-richest university, Stanford. The California party school reported returns of 19.4 percent this past year, raising its overall holdings to $15.2 billion...