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...Saturday.The weekend set dropped Harvard from the top of the Ivy League standings and into the middle of the pack, while Princeton recovered on Saturday after losing its first match of the season to Dartmouth on Friday night.The Crimson will try and recover this weekend when first-place Yale (9-4, 4-0) and Brown (5-11, 1-3) come to Cambridge.“The way the Ivy League works is that anyone can beat anyone on a given day,” senior setter Sarah Cebron said.PRINCETON 3, HARVARD 0It’s often said that the mark...
Prediction: Yale 23, Dartmouth...
...YALE DAILY News has a fascinating, nearly 3,000-word story on college-admissions consultants. There are 3,000 such consultants nationwide, according to their association, a number which has doubled in just the last few years. The YDN calls their advice "controversial" right in the headline, and goes on to detail a few students' experiences with the services. An IvyWise consultant says, "If a student is not making an impact, he or she is going to get lost in the shuffle. We help them put their passions...
There's a lot of talk about how much assistance these consultants provide on elements of their clients' applications, especially the essay. The consultants say they don't write them. They also say they don't use "connections" to get their clients into choice schools, though one Yale student, who got free services from IvyWise, says her consultant "had connections with a lot of admissions people at the top schools...
...outgoing managing board of the YDN waxes poetic about its time at the paper's helm, and praises the incoming board, "which includes some of the strongest investigative reporters Yale has ever seen...