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Colleges Want More Of The Shrinking Pie

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Recently an article came out in Forbes which explained that all colleges, including the Ivy League, will get slightly easier to get into because of the impending demographic cliff. We disagree. What is the demographic cliff?

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Vanderbilt Announces Free Tuition for Students Whose Families Make $150K or Less

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Vanderbilt created Opportunity Vanderbilt during the financial crisis of 2008 and has provided over $2.6 Ivy League Schools like Princeton University , Harvard University, and Yale University all take things further by providing free education at a lower threshold, at most $100,000. And we want to help make sure you can be here."

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Dartmouth College Waitlist Acceptance Rate

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Dartmouth College Waitlist Acceptance Rate The below is Dartmouth College’s waitlist data for the Class of 2026 through 2008, covering 19 years of waitlist statistics for the College on the Hill. Dartmouth Waitlist Acceptance Rates and Statistics Dartmouth College Class Year … Read More Ivy Coach

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The Future of Legacy Admissions

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LEGACY VS. NON-LEGACY ACCEPTANCE RATES Twenty years ago, legacy applicants to the Ivy League generally saw rates of admission that were 3-4 times greater than the overall rate of admission. This time, for favoring children of alumni.

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Yale: Early Acceptance Rate

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For historical data, see our collection of Ivy League and Top College Acceptance Rates and Admissions Statistics , including the Class of 2027 Ivy League admissions data and admissions stats for a range of additional selective schools. See Highlights from the Yale Daily News article below: The 9.02

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Will Legacy Admissions End Along With Affirmative Action?

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In fact, one study found "no statistically significant evidence of a casual relationship between legacy preference policies and total alumni giving among top universities" after evaluating data between 1998 and 2008. Recent rumblings at the University of Pennsylvania suggest the Ivy League school is inching away from legacy preferences.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

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Much of that decline can be attributed to the Great Recession that began in 2008, during and after which students sought more career-oriented degrees to improve their employment prospects. Since the 1970s, the number of degrees conferred in the humanities has dropped fairly steadily , and that decline has picked up steam in recent years.