- Teresa A. Sullivan was inaugurated as the University of Virginia’s eighth president last Friday. She had already been serving as president for eight months. “Her energy and her drive, to build on this 200 year legacy at the University of Virginia has created a marvelous environment where students are free to succeed,” said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell at the inaugural event. (Source: Teresa Sullivan Officially Inaugurated as UVa’s 8th President,” Newsplex.com)
- A Chronicle article, “Stalking the True College Acceptance Rate,” discusses the difference between how institutions compute acceptance rates and then how those acceptance rates are translated over to the applying public. In short, institutions don’t account for multiple applications or unqualified applicants, making their acceptance rate higher than the rate that the applicants read about online. The ratio of the actual number of qualified applicants compared to the actual number of available slots in reality a lot higher than the published single-digit acceptance rates, and it’s this ratio, argues the article, that applicants should have access to.
- Princeton Review released its Top 10 Dream School list based on its 2011 “College Hopes & Worries Survey.”
Here are the top dream colleges according to students:
1. Stanford University
2. Harvard College
3. New York University
4. Princeton University
5. Massachusetts Institute of T technology
6. Yale University
7. University of California – Los Angeles
8. University of Pennsylvania
9. University of Southern California
10. University of California – Berkeley
(Last year’s list included Brown and Cornell, and not Penn and Berkeley. See The Daily Pennsylvania’s article “Penn once again ranked among nation’s ‘dream colleges,’” for Penn’s perspective on the new rankings.)
And here are the top dream colleges according to parents:
1. Harvard College
2. Stanford University
3. Princeton University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Yale University
6. Duke
7. Brown
8. New York University
9. University of Notre Dame
10. Northwestern
(Last year’s list included UCLA and USC, and not Duke or Northwestern.)
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