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- Economy Changing the Game of College Admissions
- Elite institutions don't have the upper hand this admissions season. The recession is forcing families to reevaluate the cost of a four-year degree and consider a greater diversity of schools. The result? Applications to some top liberal arts colleges have plunged.
- Videos 2009-04-05
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- Arabic Grows at Ivy League In Burst of Post-9/11 Interest
- Gross, Max Forward 01-24-2003 When Rachel Smith began taking Arabic at Princeton University two years ago, she had no choice about which class to take: Only one was offered. Today there are three sections. Since the attacks of September 11,...
- Research articles 2003-01-24
- Ivy League Endowment Report Card: "F"
- For years, the heavy hitters who ran the endowments at places like Yale and Harvard were not only the envy of other universities, but of ordinary investors too. The Ivy League geniuses, however, are looking more like failing students lately. The five schools with the largest multi-billion-dollar...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- College Aid for the Affluent
- You shouldn't automatically assume that your family's income will prevent you from qualifying for college financial aid. Some schools will actually be eager to offer you some cash in hopes of enticing your son or daughter to enroll. You just need to know the rules... If your family pulls in...
- Articles 2009-03-16
- Why Athletes Have an Edge at Elite Colleges
- Division III colleges are not allowed to give athletic scholarships. But athletics can help your kid get dough anyway. The D-III Play Officially, financial favoritism for athletes at D-III schools is strictly forbidden. NCAA rules prohibit D-III schools from awarding...
- Articles 2009-06-02
- Colleges That Produce the Highest Paid Grads
- What college or university can brag that it's students graduate with the highest paid jobs? Harvard? No. Yale? No. In fact, you can forget all the Ivy League schools. The paycheck honors belongs to Loma Linda CA University, a Seventh Day Adventist school, which...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Best Colleges: The Real Rankings
- With so many college rankings and so many different schools rated No.1, it's hard for parents to know whom to believe. An exclusive MoneyWatch.com analysis has the answer. U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Kiplinger’s, and a few others have their own special recipe to pick the winners, and...
- Articles 2009-09-24
- ZOA: Shun Ivy Colleges That Host Israel-Bashing Poet
- Gross, Max Forward 12-06-2002 The Zionist Organization of America is urging Jews to shun Harvard and Columbia Universities to protest the prestigious institutions' association with the controversial Irish poet Tom Paulin. ZOA called on alumni last week to stop sending...
- Research articles 2002-12-06
- FEATURE/Getting Inside America's Elite Colleges: What Every Parent Needs to Know
- Feature Editors & Education Writers FEATURES... NEW YORK --BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 23, 2002 So, you want your child to attend an Ivy League school? If you think acceptance depends on his or her high school, you're on the right track. In its September 2002 issue, Worth magazine investigates...
- Research articles 2002-08-23
- Top Colleges to Cut Big Aid Packages?
- For about two years the nation's most elite schools have been letting families participate in a fabulous trade-in opportunity. Parents pay a pittance to a school like Princeton, Harvard and Swarthmore and in return their child gets to earn a bachelor's degree that retails for more than $200,000. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Should the Ivy League Buy The New York Times?
- So, there's the usual Monday morning bad news in the news business (layoffs and buyouts at the McClatchy chain's Charlotte Observer); but there this also a novel idea from The Chronicle of Higher Education. "The time has come for the nation's wealthiest colleges and universities to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Most colleges continuing to admit early
- After Harvard University announced plans in September to eliminate its early-admission program because it appeared to slight students from lower-income families, many in the higher education community expected other schools to follow. Princeton University did. So did the University of Virginia. But the imitation stopped there. The University of Pennsylvania...
- Research articles 2007-01-15
- Private colleges try to stay affordable
- If your son or daughter is accepted at Yale this year, you probably won't have to borrow a dime to pay for that Ivy League education, thanks to Yale's expanded financial aid for middle- and upper-middle-income families. But don't start learning the Whiffenpoof Song just yet....
- Research articles 2008-02-05
- Hey, Dad
- Dad assures his dubious son that there is still life ahead for the U.S. economy without Alan Greenspan. Any economist can push up interest rates. "Hey, Dad, now that Alan Greenspan has retired after 18 years of presiding over our economy, who will take care of us and...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- A college of one's own: women and coeducation.(Babes in Boyland : A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics, Going Codes: Women's Experiences in For
- Leslie Miller-Bernal & Susan L. Poulson, eds., GOING COED: WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES IN FORMERLY MEN'S COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, 1950-2000. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. 338p. bibl. index. $79.95, ISBN 0826514480; pap., $29.95, ISBN 0826514499. Rosalind Rosenberg, CHANGING THE SUBJECT: HOW THE WOMEN OF COLUMBIA SHAPED THE WAY WE...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- Columbia University announces creation of American Indian studies program
- NEW YORK Spurred on by fierce student activism a decade ago, Columbia University is now pushing forward with plans to create an American Indian studies program, making it one of only three Ivy League colleges to offer such a curriculum. University officials say they are in the preliminary...
- Research articles 2006-11-02
- A pathway to success: among Ivy League institutions, Cornell is leading the way in admitting and encouraging community college transfers
- With the total price tag of a bachelor's degree from a top-tier U.S. college or university hovering around $150,000, even some of the most highly sought-after high school graduates are turning down universities like Yale and Stanford in favor of more economical options--community colleges. Skyrocketing tuitions and anti-affirmative action campaigns...
- Research articles 2007-02-22
- 10 Generous Colleges for Braniacs
- Here's bad news for teenage braniacs: It's getting harder to cash in on a National Merit Scholarship. The competition for these awards has always been brutal, but some schools are no longer willing to award merit finalists with scholarships. The program's latest drop out is the University...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Take the College Scholarship Quiz
- How much do you really know about winning a college scholarship? Take this scholarship quiz to find out: 1. In recent years, the number of affluent students who receive merit scholarships from state and private universities has been increasing. A.   True. B.   ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Four Crazy Facts About College That Could Save You Money
- It's what you don't know about college that can kill you financially. If you've got a couple of minutes to spare, you could save yourself a lot of money by reading to the end of this post. If you aren't a LeBron James clone, forget about...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
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