Princeton Stops Its Early Admissions, Joining Movement to Make Process Fairer
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A week after Harvard abandoned early admissions as a program that puts low-income students at a disadvantage, Princeton has followed suit.
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Banking giant HSBC has reversed a decision to scrap interest-free overdrafts for university graduates after a campaign launched on the Internet social networking site Facebook, it said Friday.
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Despite Harvard's decision to stop early admissions, more students are applying for college earlier and earlier
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UCLA&#39;s Danesha Adams (25) traps the ball as Princeton&#39;s Elizabeth Pillion (5) is blocked during the first half of the semi-finals of the 23rd Annual Division I Women&#39;s Soccer Championship College Cup at SAS Stadium on Friday, Dec.
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In a change certain to shake up college admissions, Harvard University will ditch its "early action" round of applications on the grounds that it favors wealthier students over minorities and the poor. It called on other universities to follow suit.
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As competition gets more fierce and pressure more intense, many schools are phasing out class ranking systems. But not everyone thinks that's such a good idea
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The University of California Board of Regents opted against Regent Ward Connerly&#39;s proposal to adopt a multi-racial check box option on admissions applications at its Wednesday meeting at UCLA.
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WASHINGTON -- Congress is trying to end a practice that unintentionally has allowed banks to take in billions of dollars meant to help students pay for college.
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The NCAA today placed the University of Missouri-Columbia menâs basketball team on three years of probation and reduced the number of scholarships it can offer.
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A federal judge in Boston dismissed patent claims filed by large biotechnology companies against Columbia University that alleged the New York school was improperly trying to extend its rights to a process widely used to engineer new drugs.
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Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced a plan Monday to limit gifted and talented programs to students who score in the top 5 percent on admissions tests.
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Eleanor Roosevelt senior Derrick Williams, considered by many to be the top football recruit in the nation, has eliminated Maryland from his list of prospective schools.
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Decisions by Harvard, Yale and other elite schools to make college more affordable to a larger pool of applicants might have the unintended consequence of harming less wealthy institutions and the students who attend them, some educators and financial aid experts say.
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Jeff Terrell scored on a 4-yard run in overtime and Tom Methvin stopped a 2-point conversion attempt to give Princeton a 27-26 win over Colgate yesterday in Hamilton, N.Y.
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If presidents of some of the nation's top liberal arts colleges get their way, they will no longer be included in the U.S. News and World Report's influential collegiate ranking system.
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PRINCETON, N.J. -- You've got to wonder what kind of team Harvard would be if the Crimson got into the flow of their games earlier.
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For some reason, noon just comes way too early, and making it to campus is a struggle. I thought one of my professors was going to be a stickler about it and dock me some points, but I had a talk with him to calm him down.