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How to Get Into Boston College: Acceptance Rate and Strategies

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Between 1994 and 2003, the average SAT score jumped roughly 100 points with the 50th percentile scores climbing from 1120-1270 up to 1210-1360. From 1980 to 1990, Boston College accepted as few as 31% of applicants and as many as 45% of prospective Eagles. The most generous year for acceptance was 1991, when 56% of […]

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What Is Harvard Known For? A Closer Look at Its Reputation

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However, the universitys other sports have won championships as well, such as: Men’s Golf – 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1904 Women’s Ice Hockey – 1998-99 Women’s Rugby – 2019 (15s), 2023 (15s), 2024 (7s) Men’s/Co-ed/Open Sailing – 1952, 1953, 1959, 1974, 2002 (Team Race), 2003 (Team Race), 2023 (Team (..)

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How to Get Into Boston College: Acceptance Rate and Strategies

College Transitions

Between 1994 and 2003, the average SAT score jumped roughly 100 points with the. From 1980 to 1990, Boston College accepted as few as 31% of applicants and as many as 45% of prospective Eagles.

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Cornell Supplemental Essays 2023-24 – Prompts and Advice

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acceptance rate for Cornell’s Class of 2027 was just a touch higher than last year’s 6.9%; as late as 2003, the school still had as high as a 31% acceptance rate. Clearly, getting into Cornell in 2023-24 is a vastly different enterprise than earlier in the millennium. Even if you earned a 1450+ […]

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Professor Gender Pay Gap: Colleges Haven’t Fixed It. Will Courts?

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According to the Post, in 2003, Vassar’s women full professors earned 7.6% In 2003, women made up 31% of full-time faculty members, according to the Brookings Institute. In 2003, women made up 27% of tenured professors. Vassar’s problem isn’t new. In fact, it’s getting worse. By 2019, that number had increased to 45%.

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Meet the Ivy League Mascots: History + Fun Facts

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So, in 2003, the club members from the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern created Keggy. However, the schools Board of Trustees scrapped the Indian caricature and symbolism in 1974 on the basis of racial insensitivity. The institution hasnt adopted any new mascot since then. The goal was to create a mascot that was not racist, homophobic, or sexist.

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Former College President On Choosing a Major: Avoid This Big Mistake

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As the president of a national liberal arts college from 2003 to 2020 (and a philosophy professor for fifteen years, earlier in my career ), I encountered similar sentiments many times.