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In The News & Observer’s weekly roundup of higher ed news, learn more about how Duke University offering free tuition led to an increase in applications.
Previously, Duke’s admissions office assigned numerical scores to six areas of a student’s application, The Chronicle reported: the strength of a student’s curriculum, plus their grades ...
That same Duke survey found that nearly half of early decision applicants identified as White. An analysis of admissions data from Georgetown University’s Class of 2022 found that early ...
Early decision (ED) or early acceptance is a type of early admission used in college admissions in the United States for admitting freshmen to undergraduate programs.It is used to indicate to the university or college that the candidate considers that institution to be their top choice through a binding commitment to enroll; in other words, if offered admission under an ED program, and the ...
Early action (EA) is a type of early admission process offered by some institutions for admission to colleges and universities in the United States.Unlike the regular admissions process, EA usually requires students to submit an application by mid-October or early November of their senior year of high school instead of January 1.
The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949 (1993) Durden, Robert F. "Donnybrook at Duke: The Gross-Edens Affair of 1960: Part I." North Carolina Historical Review 71.3 (1994): 331-357. Gifford, James F. Jr. Undergraduate Medical Education and the Elective System: Experience with the Duke Curriculum, 1966 – 1975 (Duke University Press, 1978).
Top schools saw record numbers of early action applicants again this year and admitted an even smaller percentage. But despite the numbers, college advisors saw reasons to be optimistic.
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier was born on June 9, 1921, in Quebec, Canada. Her father, Frank Duff Frazier, came from a prosperous Boston family. Her mother, the former Brenda Germaine Henshaw Williams-Taylor, was the only daughter of Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (a general manager of the Bank of Montreal who was knighted in 1910 and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated ...