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...points. As McCain discovered in Michigan, not too many workers want to hear there's little hope of getting their old jobs back. "If there aren't major policy differences, it's about perceptions, it's about who is feels your pain," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group, which tracks economic policy issues. "Hillary is slightly better; she appeals to beer drinkers, Obama appeals to chardonnay drinkers." And so far, at least, her prescription for job growth has proven much easier to swallow...
...levels of thought and discovery. Indeed, a study of America’s leading research universities, released this year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, showed that the research productivity of the so-called “Ivy Plus”—the eight Ivies plus Stanford and MIT— is nearly double that of its public peers...
Like Harvard, which announced a record low admissions rate of 7.1 percent on Monday, other prestigious colleges saw more competitive admissions processes this year than in the past. Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale were among the schools that had their lowest admit rate on record this year. Yale admitted 1,892 of its 22,813 applicants—a rate of 8.3 percent, down from 9.5 percent for the class of 2011. Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent, Stanford University 9.5 percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other...
...December, Harvard announced sweeping changes to its financial aid program, easing the cost of attendance for middle-income families. In a similar move, Yale announced soon afterward that the university would increase financial aid for middle-income families. In response, other schools, such as Brown and Stanford, have also launched plans to boost financial aid packages for undergraduates...
...undergraduate applicants would most like to attend if cost and acceptance were of no concern. For the past four years, that distinction had been held by New York University. Parents ranked Harvard as the third school they would most like their children to attend, trailing Princeton and Stanford. Robert J. Franek, the vice president at The Princeton Review in charge of the survey, argued that Harvard’s higher profile due to the elimination of early action and the new financial aid initiative led to its taking over the top position. “We found that the number...