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从刚刚出炉的最新消息,今年常春藤录取率总体走低。哈佛录取率于去年持平,耶鲁略高于去年,哥大创了新低,其他大学都低于去年。
Brown University accepted 2,722 from 32,724 applicants, according to a school representative. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 8.3%. Last year, Brown accepted 2,919 of 32,390 applicants, a 9% acceptance rate.
Columbia University accepted 2,185 from 37,389 applicants, according to a representative. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 5.8%. Last year, Columbia accepted 2,193 from 36,292 applications, a 6.04% acceptance rate.
Cornell University accepted 5,889 from 47,038 applicants, according to its website. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 12.5%. Last year, Cornell accepted 6,277 students from 44,966 applications, a 13.96% acceptance rate.
Dartmouth College accepted 2,092 students from 20,034 applicants, according to its website. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 10.4%. Last year, Dartmouth accepted 2,176 students from 20,675 applications, a 10.52% acceptance rate.
Harvard University accepted 2,056 students from 39,506 applicants, according to a representative. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 is 5.2%. Last year, Harvard accepted 2,037 students from 39,041 applications, a 5.2% acceptance rate.
The University of Pennsylvania accepted 3,699 from 40,413 applicants, according to a university press release. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 9.2%. Last year, UPenn accepted 3,661 from 38,918 applicants, a 9.4% acceptance rate.
Princeton University accepted 1,890 from 31,056 applicants, according to a representative. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 6.1%. Last year, Princeton accepted 1,894 students from 29,303 applications, a 6.46% acceptance rate.
Yale University accepted 2,272 from 32,900 applicants, according to its website. The admissions rate for the class of 2021 was 6.9%. Last year, Yale admitted 1,972 of 31,455 applicants, a 6.27% acceptance rate.
From Duke Admission: The Stats
This year the Admissions Office received a record-breaking number of applications – more than 34,400 – for the Class 2021.
In December, Duke admitted 861 Early Decision students — filling 50% of our first-year class. This left approximately 860 spaces in the class for the more than 31,000 Regular Decision applicants. Of those, Duke admitted 2,255 students (and 58 "Early Decision Defer" admits) to fill the remaining spots. Because of the staggering numbers and competitiveness of the applicant pool, many deserving students were not admitted or even offered a spot on the wait list this year. The overall admit rate for Regular Decision was 7.3%. 作者: pp_dream 时间: 2017-3-31 08:36
Yale set for biggest expansion in 40 years
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The bell tower looming over a bustling seven-acre construction site here on Prospect Street signals a major development for Yale University: the imminent debut of its first new residential colleges in a half-century.
When Franklin and Murray colleges open in August, they will raise the capacity of incoming classes 15 percent, to about 1,550 seats a year. That will enable Yale’s undergraduate enrollment to grow from about 5,400 now to 6,200 over the next four years.
For Yale, it will be the most significant expansion since women were admitted to the undergraduate college for the first time in 1969, a milestone that led to a 22 percent enrollment increase in that era.
Franklin and Murray, with an elaborate collegiate Gothic design echoing other parts of the campus, will become the 13th and 14th residential colleges in the network of living and learning communities within Yale College that began in 1933. They will be the first to open here since 1962.
Adding 200 seats a year would amount to a rounding error for fast-growing public universities in places like Florida, Texas and Arizona, where enrollment is measured in tens of thousands.
It will probably make little change to Yale’s admission rate, which is now 6 percent, one of the lowest in the country. But the symbolism of an ultra-selective Ivy League school, founded in 1701, growing 15 percent at the outset of its fourth century is significant. The nation’s top private colleges and universities are often slow to expand despite huge global demand.
Why has it taken 50-plus years for Yale to build more residential colleges when applications for admission now exceed 30,000 a year?
“One can only say that Yale changes slowly,” Jonathan Holloway, dean of Yale College, said in a recent interview.
One can also say that it takes a lot of money. So much that the expansion, approved in 2008, was delayed several years because of the global financial crisis.
Plans accelerated anew in 2013 after Yale announced a $250 million gift from alumnus Charles B. Johnson to fund the project. In 2014, Yale President Peter Salovey declared that the university had raised enough money in a $500 million fund drive to start construction.
“When Yale builds new colleges, it’s not an inexpensive proposition,” Holloway said. “It’s radically expensive. ... Our residential spaces are rather over-the-top. You name it, each college has it.”
That means dining halls, libraries, gyms, living quarters for the head of each college and the dean of each college, off-hours kitchen and snack areas called “butteries,” common rooms, courtyards and more. Some colleges have performance spaces for dance and theater. Some have squash courts.
Building Franklin and Murray required obtaining vast quantities of granite, brick, limestone and slate for the exterior, oak for interior hardwood floors and various other elements — arches, gates, bay windows and the like — to create a polished look that aims to blend into the rest of the historic New England campus.
The colleges were named for Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation’s Founding Fathers, and Anna Pauline Murray, a Yale alumna who was a scholar, lawyer and civil rights leader and the first African American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
Johnson, the major donor behind the project, was said to have suggested Franklin’s name. Still, the choice was somewhat controversial here in part because Franklin owned slaves as a young man before voicing opposition to slavery later in life. Yale also has been wrestling lately with whether to rename a residential college that now honors the 19th-century politician and slavery advocate John C. Calhoun. A decision on that question is expected early next year.
Building the two residential colleges is hardly the only step in expansion. Yale has added professors in recent years, growing from roughly 600 tenured and tenure-track positions in the faculty of arts and sciences toward a goal of 700 by 2021. There are now about 650, said Tamar Szabo Gendler, dean of that faculty unit.
Yale also has been planning how to expand student services and course offerings and schedules to ensure that it maintains small classes for undergraduates.
Holloway said consultants have helped Yale study its classroom use and “room flow.” The university has enough space, he said, but orchestrating which classes will be held when and where is a delicate political matter. At many universities, professors have little say in those issues.
Not so at Yale.
“Faculty are not accustomed to being told, ‘You’re going to teach this class on this day at this time,’ ” Holloway said. “That just doesn’t happen.”
Expanding faculty is, of course, expensive. Which leads to another point: Many colleges and universities these days grow their student body explicitly to net more tuition revenue. Yale officials insist that was not their goal.
“At no point in the expansion did we think we’d do it to raise money for the university,” Yale Provost Ben Polak said. “This is about access.”
Providing a world-class education to more students is a good thing, Polak said. But there are limits. “We can’t expand infinitely,” he said. 作者: pp_dream 时间: 2017-3-31 08:45
When Ziad Ahmed was asked "What matters to you, and why?" on his Stanford University application, only one thing came to mind: #BlackLivesMatter.
So for his answer, Ahmed — who is a senior at Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey — wrote #BlackLivesMatter exactly 100 times. The risky decision paid off. On Friday, Ahmed received his acceptance letter from Stanford.
"I was actually stunned when I opened the update and saw that I was admitted," Ahmed said in an email. "I didn't think I would get admitted to Stanford at all, but it's quite refreshing to see that they view my unapologetic activism as an asset rather than a liability."
On Saturday, Ahmed posted his answer and acceptance letter on Twitter with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The tweet now has over 700 retweets and over 2,000 likes. It has also been retweeted by members of Campaign Zero, a police reform campaign, and some of its founders, Brittany Packnett and Samuel Sinyangwe.
"My unapologetic progressivism is a central part of my identity, and I wanted that to be represented adequately in my application," Ahmed said.
Ahmed said his Islamic faith and his commitment to justice is intertwined. He believes he wouldn't be practicing his religion correctly if he turned a blind eye to the injustices the black community faces on a daily basis.
"To me, to be Muslim is to be a BLM ally, and I honestly can't imagine it being any other way for me," Ahmed said. "Furthermore, it's critical to realize that one-fourth to one-third of the Muslim community in America are black ... and to separate justice for Muslims from justices for the black community is to erase the realities of the plurality of our community."
"if you want america to be great, follow in the footsteps of the GREATEST ???????? #MuhammadAli #RestInPower #TheSkyIsCrying"Source: Ziad Ahmed/Instagram
Ahmed said as an ally of the black community, he felt it was his duty to make a statement and speak up against the injustices he witnesses. But while he does consider himself as an activist first, he emphasizes that it's not his place to speak on behalf of the black community.
"As an ally of the black community though, it is my duty to speak up in regards to the injustice, and while this was not a form of 'activism' as it was simply an answer in a college application," he said. "I wanted to make a statement."
Perhaps it's no surprise, though, that Stanford wanted Ahmed among its class of 2021. The Bangladeshi-American teen has already been making impressive waves in his activism work. At just 18 years old, Ahmed has already been invited to the White House Iftar dinner and recognized as an Muslim-American change-maker under the Obama administration.
In 2016, he interned and worked for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign after leading Martin O'Malley's youth presidential campaign. In November 2015, Ahmed gave a TedxTalk in Panama City, Panama, discussing the perils and impact of stereotypes as a young Muslim teen.
"I'm thrilled to share my #TEDx talk that I had the opportunity to give in Panama City, Panama entitled "Our Age Does Limit Our Activism" — link is in bio — would mean the world if you checked it out + shared"Source: Ziad Ahmed/Instagram
He serves as the founder and president of Redefy, a teen organization of about 300 students around the world working collaboratively to defy stereotypes, and co-founded his own youth-centered consulting firm called JÜV Consulting.
Ahmed has an entrepreneurial spirit and often times that requires taking a lot of risks. It's why he answered the essay question with a simple statement on behalf of black lives — because he wanted to attend a university that would empower and further his activism rather than stand in the way.
Ziad Ahmed with 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton
Source: Ziad Ahmed/Instagram
In addition to Stanford, Ahmed said he has already been accepted to Yale University and Princeton University. He has until May 1 to decide which school to attend. As for his major, he's still undecided. It's somewhere among international relations, cognitive science, economics or comparative studies in race and ethnicity, he said.
But one thing Ahmed is sure about is the reason he purposefully didn't further explain the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag.
"The insistence on an explanation is inherently dehumanizing," Ahmed said. "Black lives have been explicitly and implicitly told they don't matter for centuries, and as a society — it is our responsibility to scream that black lives matter because it is not to say that all lives do not matter, but it is to say that black lives have been attacked for so long, and that we must empower through language, perspective, and action."
Stanford University declined to comment, stating that they "do not discuss student applications."
Sarah A. Harvard 作者: pp_dream 时间: 2017-4-4 21:05 标题: 回复 15楼pp_dream 的帖子