Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
As Yale’s yield this year holds strong despite recent upheavals in the admissions process at the nation’s top-ranked schools, admissions experts say they are impressed — but not surprised. Yale’s historically strong appeal for high-school seniors has allowed the University to weather this year’s changes at rival schools, most notably Harvard and Princeton...
With the offer of a Robertson Scholarship luring him to Duke University, Dan Ewert needed a reason to choose Yale. When the University announced an overhaul of its financial-aid system this past winter, he got the excuse he needed. “I was pleasantly surprised with the financial-aid package,” said Ewert, who attends Germantown High School in Germantown, Wis. “For me...
For Alice Hodgkins ’11, it was simply a matter of checking a box on a form — and then, instead of walking through Phelps Gate with the class of 2010 last September, she was soaring above the clouds in North Carolina at the controls of a Cessna 150, earning her pilot’s license. That fall, as her would-be class adjusted to life on Old Campus, Hodgkins traveled to...
In countries ranging from Ghana to Spain to Pakistan, international Yalies will give high-school students an insiders’ peak into life at Yale and the American college application process this summer as part of the recently expanded International Ambassadors program. Following the completion of a pilot ambassadors program in South Asia last winter, the admissions...
When he transferred from Columbia to Yale last spring and joined Morse College’s class of 2008, he seemed like many other Yale students: His admissions application boasted a rigorous course load, straight A’s and a glowing letter of recommendation. There was only one problem: None of it appears to have been true, according to charges filed against him in Connecticut...
For some applicants, a Yale education is worth lying for. After discovering serious discrepancies in the transfer application of a Morse College junior, Yale rescinded his admission last summer, and police arrested him in September for larceny and forgery. In a season of single-digit acceptance rates, the case is a jolting signal of the vulnerability of the Ivy League to...
Amid all the hype surrounding this year’s record-low acceptance rates in the Ivy League, two things are sure: This is a year unlike any other for college admissions, and no one can predict what is going to happen. The absence of early programs at Harvard and Princeton universities, a series of financial-aid shake-ups throughout higher education and a record number of...
Yale College posted an all-time-low acceptance rate this year, as the total admit rate dropped 1.3 percentage points from last year’s initial rate to 8.3 percent for the class of 2012. But Harvard University stayed a step ahead with an Ivy League record-low acceptance rate of 7.1 percent. Yale accepted 1,892 students out of the 22,813 early and regular applicants for...
At 2:24 p.m. Monday afternoon, “Dr. Avrah” declared March 31, 2008 the “most important day of my life!” on CollegeConfidential.com. “Okay,” he wrote, “maybe my birth was a little bit more important for obvious reasons, but apart from that, it is the most important day of my life!” And, he added, in reference to the decisions he anticipated later that day...
Yale College posted an Ivy League record-low acceptance rate this year, as the total acceptance rate dropped 1.3 percentage points from last year's initial rate to 8.3 percent for the class of 2012. Yale accepted 1,892 students out of the 22,813 total early and regular applicants for the class of 2012, Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel told the News on Monday. The...
For the first time in 14 years, rejected college applicants this year will have a hard time blaming unfavorable demographics for their “we regret to inform you” letters. National graduation rates have skyrocketed since 1994 at the same time that schools have witnessed a comparable expansion of the college-applicant pool, in what a recent College Board/ACT study...
Harvard University will not accept transfer students for the next two academic years in an effort to ease a residential housing crunch, the university announced last week. Although the transfer application deadline for this year — Feb. 15 — has already passed, Harvard will not enroll any new transfer students in 2008-’09 or 2009-’10. The university also plans to...
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