It’s that time of year again — several colleges released their admissions decisions this week, sending hundreds of thousands of anxious high school students into either incredible elation or crushing disappointment. Seven out of the eight Ivy League schools posted all-time low acceptance rates for the class of 2017 yesterday, making for the most competitive »
Dishing out mountains of cash for AP exams may soon become a thing of the past. Beginning in fall of 2014, Dartmouth will no longer exchange AP scores for credit in any subject. The policy change, which will affect Dartmouth’s class of 2018 first, came after the school’s Psychology Department conducted an experiment on an incoming »
Dartmouth College announced today that Philip Hanlon, the current provost at the University of Michigan, will be the New Hampshire school’s new president. Hanlon’s appointment and transition from provost to president-elect comes just three weeks after the Yale Corporation announced Provost Peter Salovey as the next Yale president. Salovey will begin his term on June »
Dartmouth, Brown and the University of Pennsylvania have all released their early application numbers for the Class of 2017. The University of Pennsylvania saw its early applicant pool reach an all-time high, with 4,780 students applying, up 5.6 percent from last year. Brown’s early applicant pool rose about 1 percent, reaching a record number of »