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West Virginia University May Cut 32 Majors, 7% of Faculty

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Gee, who has led the school since 2014, recently announced plans to step down as the school's president after his contract ends in 2025. Much of West Virginia University's budget shortfall can be blamed on slashed state funding, according to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. We do not take that lightly.

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Legacy Admissions

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Legacy admissions is a policy that grants preferences to the children of alumni. The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools. In 2014, the percentage had dropped to only 13%. It is not a racist policy. What is legacy admissions? But it ain’t what it used to be.

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The Future of Legacy Admissions

Top Tier Admissions

We know that from the period of 2014-2019, legacy applicants to Harvard enjoyed an admit rate of over 33 percent – a whopping five times greater than non-legacy applicants. As schools seek to carefully manage their enrollments and tuition revenue, alumni children help provide greater yield stability and predictability to their calculations.

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Dartmouth Announces Families Making Under $125K Pay Nothing, Thanks to Historic Gift

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This policy change will impact about 350 families. Dartmouth alum and former Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt, who died in 2014, and his wife, Barbara Britt, who died in August, made a bequest to the college and its Tuck School of Business of over $150 million, which will help erase expenses for students from middle-income families.

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The Best Online MBAs — No GMAT Required

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According to Franklin University, the number of online MBA programs in the United States doubled from 2014-2018. These include school and program reputation, tuition and other costs, program length, and available specializations. Many nationally ranked business schools offer MBA programs with test-optional admission policies.

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Many Alaskan Students Aren’t Accepting State’s Merit-Based Scholarship

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APS eligibility rates declined steadily between 2014 and 2019, after which rates increased in 2020 and 2021 due to temporary suspension of standardized testing requirements," the report reads. The top tier pays up to $4,755 in tuition per year, followed by $3,566 for the second tier and $2,378 for the third tier.

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Weekly Update: February 21

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In 2014, New York State Education Law 2-D barred the commercialization of such information. This research comes as Dartmouth recently announced the decision to reinstate its policy to require test scores, and Harvard committed to a test-optional policy through its Class of 2030.