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March 31, 2022 | 5:54pm EDT Duke admitted 2,230 high school seniors through the Regular Decision application cycle to the Class of 2026. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag wrote in an email to The Chronicle that the acceptance rate for those who applied Regular Decision to the Class of 2026 is 4.6%.

The admit rate is a decrease from last year's 5.19% admit rate and the lowest in Stanford's history. The Class of 2025, comprised of 2,190 students admitted this year and 369 deferrals from the year...

An ultra-tight job market has employers from law to health care dropping burdensome requirements.

Yale-NUS College Yale's largest and most ambitious international expansion program, Yale-NUS College in Singapore, will close its doors in 2025 after 12 years of operation. The National University of Singapore (NUS), Yale's partner in the establishment of Yale-NUS, announced in August that the college would be merged with its University Scholars Program to create a liberal arts division of NUS called New College.

Harvard College accepted 3.43 percent of applicants to the Class of 2025 - 1,968 students out of the 57,435 who applied - marking the lowest admissions rate in College history in a year that saw an unprecedented surge in applications.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

When Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested dozens of wealthy parents, college coaches and others in March 2019 at the crescendo of the Operation Varsity Blues investigation, they released a 204-page affidavit detailing the payments and taped conversations that they say provide evidence of a brazen college admissions cheating scheme.

As part of an agreement with prosecutors, Ms. Loughlin, the Hollywood actress, is expected to receive a two-month prison sentence. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - She frowned at times, and other times nodded ruefully. When it was all over - after she had uttered the word "guilty" - she closed her eyes and sighed.

Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research [Urquiola, Miguel] on Amazon.com.

Bogus applications. Forged ACT tests. Dubious extracurriculars polished to a sheen. How the parents involved in the college-admissions scandal became drawn into Rick Singer's web, lusting after the crookedest education money could buy. It was so not like Jane Buckingham to behave this way.

PDF from Center on Education and the Workforce.

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money [Caplan, Bryan] on Amazon.com.

I have been in school for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. The next step was what you could call my first "real" job-as an economics professor at George Mason University.

Two years ago, Yale University caused a stir with the announcement of an ambitious new project in Singapore-an undergraduate campus co-sponsored with National University of Singapore to be called Yale-NUS. Since then, Yale has been widely hailed as heralding a new era in education, as it is the first Ivy League institution to build an overseas campus for undergraduates bearing its name.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

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In 2019, the Department of Justice revealed the findings of an F.B.I. investigation with the code name Operation Varsity Blues. Andrew LELLING : We're here today to announce charges in the largest colleges-admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.