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  2. Moravian University - Wikipedia

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    Moravian University is the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the first to educate women in the original 13 colonies. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the second boarding school for young women in the U.S. behind just the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.

  3. List of countries by tertiary education attainment - Wikipedia

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    Largest share of college or university graduates in the G7. This is a list of countries by the proportions of 25- to 64-year-olds having completed tertiary education as published by the OECD. It includes some non-OECD nations. Tertiary education is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education.

  4. Criticism of college and university rankings in North America

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    Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.

  5. Lehigh University - Wikipedia

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    Admission to Lehigh University is classified as "more selective" by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. [29] The Princeton Review gives Lehigh an "Admissions Selectivity Rating" of 95 out of 99. [30] In 2024, Lehigh University received 20,396 applications and admitted 5,289 students, resulting in an acceptance rate ...

  6. Salem Academy - Wikipedia

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    Salem was founded in 1772 by early Moravian settlers who held the view that girls deserved an education comparable to that afforded boys. Among the town's early residents were 16 girls and women who traveled, mostly on foot, around 500 miles from Bethlehem, Province of Pennsylvania, to join the new community.

  7. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...

  8. Matriculation - Wikipedia

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    In Australia, the term matriculation is seldom used now. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, all states replaced the matriculation examination with either a certificate, such as the Higher School Certificate (HSC) in Victoria and New South Wales, or a university entrance exam such as the Tertiary Entrance Exam in Western Australia.

  9. Category:Moravian University - Wikipedia

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    Moravian University faculty (10 P) M. Moravian Greyhounds (5 C) Pages in category "Moravian University" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.