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Gina Grant (born 1976) is an American woman who gained notoriety when her admission to Harvard University was rescinded after it became known that four years earlier, at age 14, she had killed her mother. Controversy ensued over questions including whether she was obligated to disclose crimes committed as a juvenile; whether she had escaped ...
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [ 232 ] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
The posts of gleeful excitement from kids across America who have ripped open their acceptance letters and made their college decision have been rolling in with the hashtag #ReachHigher in line ...
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 ...
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The school became the focus of national media attention in December 2016 after one high school senior was accepted into Cornell University. [6] [7] T.M. Landry students have been accepted into other prestigious schools, including: Harvard University, Boston University, Tulane University, Brown University, and New York University.
(In 1955, Harvard admitted 79% of applicants from Exeter and Andover; [54] by contrast, in 1957, 30% of recent Exeter graduates made the dean's list at Harvard, compared to 40% for the entire freshman class. [52]) Due to a surge of applicants from public schools, Exeter students no longer enjoyed near-automatic admission to the colleges of ...