December 26, 2009 – 3:39 PM
In the midst of finals last week we missed posting this from last Friday’s NY Times front page: for the first time ever, Yale admitted a full set of quadruplets from its early-admission applicant pool, the high-achieving Crouch siblings of Danbury, Connecticut. Like many multiples, the Crouches are hesitant to follow each other to college, [...]
December 16, 2009 – 4:29 PM
A panel of civil rights investigators plans to begin reviewing admissions data to determine whether “female students have become so plentiful in higher education that institutions have entered a new era of discrimination against them.” The investigation focuses on D.C. schools, but the Washington Post also mentions data from William and Mary, Vassar, Swarthmore, and—shocker—Wesleyan, [...]
The Wall Street Journal asked some university presidents to write essays answering one of the admission application questions for their schools.
Our own Michael Roth was among them, answering the question “Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence“.
He wrote about his older brother, who died at the age [...]
Applications are at a record high at top universities (including Wes), but it seems that with shrinking endowments and many more needy students applying, a lot of colleges are finding ways to accept more wealthy applicants and still claim to be need-blind in admissions, like taking more transfer and wait-listed students, or admitting more international [...]
February 1, 2009 – 9:52 PM
Are you a frosh who lives in Fauver or Clark? Do you love your room? Do you get along with your roommate? If you’ve answered yes to any of the above, then sign up to show off your rooms to pre-frosh and their parents on their tour of campus! If you’ve got it, flaunt it. [...]
February 1, 2009 – 8:52 PM
Are you a frosh who lives in Fauver or Clark? Do you love your room? Do you get along with your roommate? If you’ve answered yes to any of the above, then sign up to show off your rooms to pre-frosh and their parents on their tour of campus! If you’ve got it, flaunt it. [...]
November 21, 2008 – 12:43 PM
A New York Times article reported today that Wesleyan Early-Decision Round I applications increased by forty percent. While this year was initially speculated to show a dip in applications, due to the nation’s financial crisis, Wesleyan’s rate is currently unprecedented.
Wesleyan’s competition has also seen significant increases in early-decision applications: Dartmouth, Middlebury at 10 %, [...]
November 21, 2008 – 11:43 AM
A New York Times article reported today that Wesleyan Early-Decision Round I applications increased by forty percent. While this year was initially speculated to show a dip in applications, due to the nation’s financial crisis, Wesleyan’s rate is currently unprecedented.
Wesleyan’s competition has also seen significant increases in early-decision applications: Dartmouth, Middlebury at 10 %, [...]
Many elite college admission notifications went out this week, and apparently this year they’ve got the lowest admission rates yet – even steeper than last year’s record low percentage of admissions.
Fortunately for your younger siblings, they might not have to put away those Ivy League (or uh, Wesleyan) sweatshirts prematurely – demographic math suggests that [...]
Many elite college admission notifications went out this week, and apparently this year they’ve got the lowest admission rates yet – even steeper than last year’s record low percentage of admissions.
Fortunately for your younger siblings, they might not have to put away those Ivy League (or uh, Wesleyan) sweatshirts prematurely – demographic math suggests that [...]
I don’t know if you’ve gathered from what I post lately, but I’m doing a ton of research on college admissions for my thesis. Running through some newspaper articles tonight on Factiva, I came across this gem of a piece describing one family’s perception of Wesleyan that, while printed over a month ago, is just [...]
I don’t know if you’ve gathered from what I post lately, but I’m doing a ton of research on college admissions for my thesis. Running through some newspaper articles tonight on Factiva, I came across this gem of a piece describing one family’s perception of Wesleyan that, while printed over a month ago, is just [...]
October 9, 2006 – 1:12 PM
Middlebury College is considering sexual orientation in its admissions decisions:
Middlebury College is this year for the first time giving students who identify themselves as gay in the admissions process an “attribute” — the same flagging of an application that members of ethnic minority groups, athletes, alumni children and others receive, according to Shawn Rae Passalacqua, [...]
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