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University of Pennsylvania Waitlist Acceptance Rate

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The below is UPenn‘s waitlist data for the Class of 2026 through 2014. UPenn reliably reported the number of students waitlisted, the chunk who opted-in, and the number of accepted students off the … Read More Ivy Coach

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Legacy Admissions

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The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools. Legacy admissions is all about perpetuating the American elite The thing to remember is that not so long ago, the Ivy League schools and the other private, elite schools of the east coast really were just for the elite.

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The Future of Legacy Admissions

Top Tier Admissions

LEGACY VS. NON-LEGACY ACCEPTANCE RATES Twenty years ago, legacy applicants to the Ivy League generally saw rates of admission that were 3-4 times greater than the overall rate of admission. This time, for favoring children of alumni.

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Will Legacy Admissions End Along With Affirmative Action?

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For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9% Amherst's decision echoed a similar move by Johns Hopkins University, which jettisoned legacy admissions in 2014. Recent rumblings at the University of Pennsylvania suggest the Ivy League school is inching away from legacy preferences.

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

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By 2014, those figures had dropped to 2.6% If you can afford to go to an Ivy League school or to an elite liberal arts college, you're going to get a liberal arts education that doesn't look all that different from what it looks like now," he said. Students' choice of majors reflects those shifting preferences.

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Johns Hopkins Reinstates Standardized Testing

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The decision follows similar policy changes at Ivy League colleges. Hopkins' decision follows similar policy changes by several Ivy League schools. What differentiates Johns Hopkins from this group is its policy on legacy admissions, which it abandoned in 2014. Daniels wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Dartmouth Men’s Basketball Players Could Be First Unionized NCAA Athletes

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In 2014, football players at Northwestern University tried to unionize, arguing that the current model of the NCAA "resembled a dictatorship, where the NCAA places these rules and regulations on these students without their input or their negotiation." This is not the first time college athletes have attempted to unionize.