Athletes, the Ivy League, and the “Academic Index.”

04/18/2017
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(Soccer Nation) by C. Schumaker. Club coaches, high school coaches, and even college coaches will all tell players that great athletic ability can help get an athlete through admissions at a college where he/she wouldn’t normally have a good chance at getting accepted. Would Michael Ohr, of The Blind Side fame, have been accepted to Ole’ Miss […]

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Princeton Is Scrambling To Block Its Admissions Records From Being Released

03/30/2017
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(Buzzfeed) by Molly Hensley-Clancy. Princeton is scrambling to prevent the release of a trove of its most sensitive admissions documents, including individual student files and information about how the school judges and selects its freshman class. The data was provided to the Education Department as part of a years-long investigation, making it subject to Freedom […]

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