college-admissions
George Washington University Lied About Financial Aid Program
J.K. Trotter · 10/21/13 01:52PMLess than a month after George Washington University began construction of an enormous $130 million “Super Dorm,” the D.C. university admitted today that its admissions office had deliberately lied for several years about whether the school considered applicants’ financial need when assessing their fitness for admission.
Admissions Waitlist Turns Students Into Stalkers
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/12/13 10:12AMThe White Student Suing to Overthrow Affirmative Action Was Too Dumb to Get Into Her Chosen College
Tom Scocca · 03/20/13 04:30PMLife is tough for white people in America. A few hundred years of presumed superiority have left many of them psychologically unable to deal with failure, trapped in a cycle of victimhood where their own shortcomings can only be understood as evidence of persecution against them. So we have Abigail Fisher, 23 years old, and the plaintiff in Fisher v. University of Texas, which is currently being weighed by the Supreme Court.
Vassar Is Sorry for Accepting 76 Applicants and Then Rejecting Them (UPDATE)
Emma Carmichael · 01/30/12 04:37PMDesperate Pee Song Fails to Get Girl Into Harvard
Maureen O'Connor · 07/14/11 02:39PMThe hard-hearted dream-destroyers of Harvard's admissions office have spoken: Grace Oberhofer, the Washington teen who became a viral star begging to get off Harvard's waitlist, did not get into Harvard. Instead she will go to Tufts, where she will spend the next four years deflecting "safety school" jokes. [FlyByBlog, IvyGate]