education Buying A Seat at Top Universities? The Guardian’s Jeevan Vasagar reported this week that the British government is considering creating extra seats in its university quota system for privileged students who can pay an increased kylehuwa 13 May 2011
education Stanford Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Calls Out Princeton Review Well, I’ll let you read the full story over at the Stanford Dish, but any story that describes a mistake so egregious that it makes Dean Richard Shaw “gnash oreid 4 Aug 2010
The Stanford Daily Stanford Yield Potentially Highest Ever As was reported in the Stanford Daily on Friday, Stanford’s yield may be the highest ever, with 72-73 percent of admits accepting their offers. Given an accepted pool of oreid 7 May 2010
admissions Interesting Take on College Selectivity Caroline Hoxby, a Stanford professor whose work I’ve mentioned before, has released another report, this time entitled “The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges” on how the landscape of college oreid 24 Dec 2009
admissions Some Quick Back of the Envelope Math About the Class of 2014 Stanford announced recently that it had accepted a record 753 early applicants for the class of 2014, out 5,556 that applied (that’s a 13.5 percent acceptance** rate* oreid 15 Dec 2009
admissions On Legacy and Endowment In a recent Stanford Daily article, it was reported that almost 1/5 of the class of 2013 was legacy, which, according to the article, was defined as having a oreid 4 Dec 2009