Elite colleges admit few veterans
When Princeton undergraduates discuss history, political science or foreign policy, they won’t hear the views of a classmate who’s fought in Iraq or Afghanistan, writes Wick Sloane on Inside Higher Ed....
View ArticleElite students don’t need elite colleges
Elite college graduates earn 40 percent more than graduates of non-elite schools, but is it the chicken or the egg? Top students who go to second-tier universities do as well in life as top students...
View ArticleElite colleges don’t boost most graduates’ pay
Graduating from an elite college doesn’t boost most graduates’ pay, concludes a new study by economists Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger. But there’s a big exception for black, Hispanic, low-income and...
View ArticleSolving the smugness problem
Elite colleges can solve the smugness problem by admitting community college transfers. Also on Community College Spotlight: Here’s how to succeed in community college and beyond, writes Isa Adney in a...
View ArticleTo get into college, be perfect — or lie
Elite colleges are looking for genius tigerkids, the ethnically and sexually diverse – and liars, writes Suzy Lee Weiss, a high school senior in Pittsburgh, in To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me...
View ArticleHigher ed is due for creative destruction
Higher education is due for some creative destruction. Professors will resist, but online education will transform postsecondary ed, leaving only the most elite colleges and universities relatively...
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Elite colleges ask more of homeschoolers
Are Elite Colleges and Universities Discriminating Against Homeschoolers? asks Paula Bolyard, a recently “retired” homeschooler, on PJ Lifestyle. Homeschooled student “enter college with significantly...
View ArticleIvy League sheep?
Don’t send your kids to Ivy League colleges, writes William Deresiewicz in New Republic. After teaching at Yale for 10 years, he thinks elite colleges are filled with talented, driven, anxious...
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80% of top students get into a top college
Harvard accepted 5.9 percent of the nearly 35,000 students who applied for admission to the class of 2018, writes Kevin Carey in the New York Times. Stanford accepted 5.07 percent of applicants. But...
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Harvard touts public good — for teens
Elite colleges should encourage applicants to care more about the common good than their personal achievement, advises Turning the Tide, report from Harvard’s Making Caring Common project. Many praised...
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Elite degree doesn’t matter for STEM grads
Graduating from an elite college doesn’t boost earnings for science, math and engineering graduates, conclude Eric R. Eide and Michael J. Hilmer in the Wall Street Journal. A prestige degree does help...
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