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The illusion of ever-lower college acceptance rates
It may just be me, but I found myself getting increasingly annoyed as I read my colleague Jenna Johnson’s blogpost detailing the latest admissions statistics for some of the nation’s most elite schools.
For example, Harvard University’s 7 percent overall rate of admissions last year was apparently not low enough. This year, it dropped to 6.9 percent. Harvard received more than 30,000 applications this year, a 5 percent increase from last year, and accepted 2,110 students.
“That’s 28,000 broken hearts,” one admissions staff member said as several passed trays stuffed with rejections into a car to be mailed,according to the student newspaper the Harvard Crimson.
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- Could bus ads save school budgets?(Associated Press)
- Loan bill stripped of early ed., other priorities (Education Week)
- Unions slam Obama's education budget (Education Week)
- Obama effigy hung at R.I. school (New York Times)
- Hispanics face barriers to college degree (New York Times)
- Suspensions lead to legal challenge(New York Times)
- Detroit ed chief wants to close 45 schools (Detroit Free Press)
- State, district leaders press transformation (Education Week)
- Hurdles await new education agenda(New York Times)
- Union tries personal tactics on UC regents (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ed Buzz: The Region
- Loudoun looking to slash positions, up fees (WTOP)
- Kids at Md. school get tainted milk (Fox 5)
- McDonnell signs college lab school legislation (Richmond Times Dispatch)
- Schools reduce police presence (The Examiner)
- Montgomery College, schools brace for cuts (The Gazette)
- P.G. County PTA reinstated (The Gazette)
- Md. GOP: Don't raise dropout age (The Gazette)
- Birth-control center finds home at T.C. Williams (Alexandria Gazette Packet)
- Fairfax teacher quits over embezzlement charges (Examiner)
- MoCo teachers say they are overwhelmed (Gazette)
- Alex. considers new school boundaries(Examiner)
- PG parents fear impact of school cuts(WJLA)
- Md. lawmakers favor ed cuts (Baltimore Sun)