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Summer Strategy Ideas for Wesleyan University

The Koppelman Group

Wesleyan is extremely undergraduate focused, with 3,000 undergrads and a much smaller graduate student body, and it is a place where undergraduate students have access to exceptional resources and access to extraordinary opportunities. That said, most successful applicants to Wesleyan do submit standardized test scores.

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

BestColleges

The 32 majors proposed to be discontinued in recommendations from the Office of the Provost include 12 undergraduate majors and 20 graduate-level majors, according to a press release last week. 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.

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Meeting Kip Thorne & an Oppenheimer Screening

Caltech Admissions

At the end of the first week of classes, our undergraduate student government (ASCIT) organized a fantastic event for students to try a bunch of food and hear from legendary Caltech physicist and Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who joined us that evening for a book signing and discussion about his role in the movie Oppenheimer !

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How to Get Into Johns Hopkins: Strategies and Essays That Worked

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

Students with an entrepreneurial spirit benefit from Johns Hopkins’ FastForward U program , which provides up to $30,000 in funding to students working on their own startup. In 2014, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures was founded to help translate research done within the Johns Hopkins’ ecosystem into the market.

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First-Generation College Students: Facts and Statistics

BestColleges

Note Reference [1] For comparison, roughly 18% of students identified as the first person in their immediate family to go to college in 2011-2012. [3] back to content ⤶ ) Percentage Distribution of Undergraduates' Level of Institution, by Selected Institution and Student Characteristics: 2011-12. October 2014.

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This is what Affirmative Action and Test-Optional looks like at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Admissions.Blog

Yet, with more demand, comes lower acceptance rates and harder calls for admissions officers who are also deputized to increase the university’s undergraduate student diversity in an environment increasingly focused on identity.

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College Student Sleep Statistics

BestColleges

Causes and Consequences of Sleepiness Among College Students. difficulty falling asleep or waking up), their cumulative GPA decreased by 0.02 Note Reference [2] Further, the likelihood of dropping a course increased 10%. National Institution of Health. back to content ⤶ ) Hershner, S. National Library of Medicine.