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Jane Edwards, who has served as the director of international studies at Wesleyan University since 1994, will take helm as the first Director of OIP this summer...
When she arrived at Wesleyan in 1994, study abroad opportunities amounted to “a chaotic situation that students found discouraging and even punitive,” Edwards wrote in an e-mail. But as a result of her efforts, she said, the situation “changed radically and very fast...
...between 40 and 50 percent of Wesleyan students study for academic credit abroad before graduation, she said...
Besides high test scores and near-perfect grades, they also applied early—and got in—according to The Early Admissions Game, a new book co-authored by two Harvard economists and and a former admissions officer from Wesleyan University...
...colleges have long argued that there is no formula or “big secret” in the quest for the coveted letter of acceptance. But Kennedy School of Government economists Christopher N. Avery ’88 and Richard J. Zeckhauser ’62 and former Wesleyan admissions officer Andrew Fairbanks conclude in their new book that applying early can give an applicant an admissions edge equivalent to an increase of 100 points...