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Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia universities reported record-low freshman admission rates for the 2013-2014 academic year as applications climbed above or held near all-time highs.
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Freshman applications to Harvard University for the 2013-2014 academic year climbed 2.1 percent to a record 35,022 as generous financial aid added to the lure of the U.S.’s oldest and richest college.
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Nicole Ederer was delighted when Columbia University and Duke University wooed her with e-mails and letters after she scored 214 out of 240 on her preliminary SAT college entrance exam junior year.
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Freshman applications to Harvard University for the 2012-2013 academic year fell 1.9 percent after the college reinstated its early application program.
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When Lena Barsky picked up her first Latin text in 2004, she couldn’t have known that memorizing the phrase “canes sunt in via” (“the dogs are in the street”) would help her win a place at Brown University six years later.
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Harvard College accepted 5.9 percent of applicants for its freshman class, a record low and a smaller percentage than its Ivy League rivals Yale University and Princeton University.
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New York University pulled out of the National Merit scholarships, becoming at least the ninth school to stop funding one of the largest U.S. merit-based aid programs, because it doesn’t want to reward students based on a standardized test.
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Harvard University accepted 6.2 percent of its freshmen applicants as more students than ever before sought an undergraduate education at the university and its fellow Ivy League institutions.
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Harvard University’s applications for undergraduate admission rose to an all-time high, making it harder than ever before to get into the college.
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Applications for early admission to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University and Dartmouth College rose to the highest on record as students said name-brand colleges give graduates an edge in job searches.
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