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Concerned that the barriers to elite institutions are being increasingly drawn along class lines, and wanting to maintain some role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen schools — Amherst, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the University of Virginia, Williams and the University of North Carolina, among them — have pushed in the past few years to diversify economically. -
1voteOnly one-quarter of high school students who take a full set of college-preparatory courses — four years of English and three each of mathematics, science and social studies — are well prepared for college, according to a new study of last year’s high school graduates released today by ACT, the Iowa testing organization.
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1voteA report released Monday says that "despite all the hype, only 16.4% of incoming students in 2006 reported that rankings were very important in their decision to attend their particular college." That's up steadily from 10.5% in 1995, the first year the question was posed.
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1voteWelcome to admitted-student season, when many of the same high school seniors who worried that they might not get in anywhere are being courted like celebrities by colleges that accepted them. The tables turn in April, when admissions officers are well aware that the students they want probably got into other similar colleges, too.
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1voteThis is the time of year when colleges send their decisions and many high school counselors console, cheer up and otherwise try to help this year’s seniors.
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1voteThe U.S. Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics says the number of graduating high school seniors will peak at 3.3 million in 2011 and decline only slightly to 3.2 million by 2016. Most educators predict that the percentage of those students going to college —about 67%--will increase and make the college application process even more stressful.
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1voteIt was the most selective spring in modern memory at America’s elite schools, according to college admissions officers. More applications poured into top schools this admissions cycle than in any previous year on record. Schools have been sending decision letters to student applicants in recent days, and rejection letters have overwhelmingly outnumbered the acceptances.
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1vote“Amazing girls” translation: Girls by the dozen who are high achieving, ambitious and confident (if not immune to the usual adolescent insecurities and meltdowns). Girls who do everything: Varsity sports. Student government. Theater. Community service. Girls who have grown up learning they can do anything a boy can do, which is anything they want to do.
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1voteIn past eras, good high schools provided the educational foundation for an intellectual awakening in college. But for the mostly affluent students in private and competitive public schools — from T.J. (as Thomas Jefferson is known) to urban intellectual cocoons like Bronx Science and Stuyvesant — high school has become the defining academic experience.
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