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The Eight Schools Association (ESA) is a group of large private college-preparatory boarding schools in the Northeastern United States.It was formally established in 2006, but has existed in some form since the 1973–74 school year.
Consider the commercialization of colleges and admissions offices' efforts to get more people to apply just to reject them, it's no surprise that students (and their parents) want to go to schools ...
A new motion filed Monday in a lawsuit spanning back two years accuses elite colleges of secretly favoring the wealthy in the admissions process and demanding $685 million in damages. The new ...
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 ...
Elite and other universities send admissions officers to high schools and college fairs to encourage high school students to apply. While the chance of admission to highly selective colleges is typically under 10%, increased numbers of applications helps maintain and improve colleges' rankings.
The Supreme Court declined to block a top-rated high school from using an admissions plan that a community group says discriminates against Asian Americans.
The inevitable result, according to Newsweek, was that the most elite institutions had created a situation in which purely meritocratic admissions had become impossible because they were already turning away too many overqualified candidates—former Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust had once said, "we could fill our class twice over with ...
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