( Inside Higher Ed ) By Elizabeth Redden — As state spending for public universities goes down, international student enrollment goes up. A newly published working paper seeks to quantify this relationship, estimating that for the period between 1996 and 2012, a 10 percent reduction in state appropriations was associated with a 12 percent increase in international […]
Read More »( The Washington Post ) By Nick Anderson — A major increase in international enrollment in recent years has intensified the competition for entry to America’s top private colleges and universities, as ever-growing numbers of applicants angle for the limited supply of seats. That tension is particularly evident in the eight prestigious Ivy League schools: […]
Read More »Scoring SAT and ACT Practice Tests can be time consuming but it is also a critical starting point for a customized tutoring program. We have a test scoring option called ScoreItNow! which allows tutors or office administrators to score tests, generate a branded score report, send a .pdf to the student in about 5 […]
Read More »The Ivy League is seeing a surge in early applications. A sampling of the numbers released this month: ■ Harvard early action (nonbinding) applications rose 5 percent, to 6,473. The acceptance rate fell slightly this year to 14.5 percent, or 938 students. ■ Yale welcomed its largest group of early-action admits in several years, accepting 871 students, or 17.1 […]
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