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Should college rankings matter?
(By liquidlibrary) You don’t necessarily need an Ivy League degree to get the job you want. I once came across a Craigslist ad with the following qualification: Must have an Ivy League degree. I didn’t...
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More students thinking twice about the value of college degrees
(Thinkstock) A growing number of individuals are promoting the idea that a college degree is not always necessary for success, especially with the state of student loan debt. When Michael Ellsberg...
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Are you relying too much on your school’s name to get you in the door?
By Chitose Suzuki/AP Students walking on Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge, Mass. Have you heard? Students from Ivy League and private schools are unwanted by internship recruiters. Now at...
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Poll: Nearly 1 in 5 students at an Ivy League university have misused ADHD drugs
Adderall XR is arranged in a Cambridge, Massachusetts pharmacy Tuesday, August 15th. (JB REED)Society has clearly come out against performance-enhancing drugs in sports, but they are becoming...
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Transferring from private to public — 5 tips to keep you in the game
Let’s face it — everyone dreams of attending a prestigious university, whether it be an Ivy League or a school listed somewhere at the top of Forbes annual “Best Colleges in America” list. For some...
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Harvard, UNC sued over admission policies
The Old Well serves as a symbol for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Photo by Evan Eile) Lawsuits filed Monday against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
View ArticleHigh school senior earns $3 million in scholarships to 26 schools
ABC US News | World News A high school graduate in Chicago’s Hyde Park won’t be applying for student loans come fall. Arianna Alexander received over $3 million in scholarships to 26 universities, six...
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Transition programs help low-income, first-generation students adjust to college
(Rick Nease/ Detroit Free Press) For some first-generation or low-income students, attending an elite university can often be a daunting and anxiety-filled experience. That’s no surprise, as studies...
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This NYC law firm refuses to hire Ivy League grads
While studies suggest many of the country’s top law firms heavily recruit from Ivy League universities, New York-based firm Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. is one place where graduates of the nation’s most...
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Yale University has the best college library in America
Libraries play a huge role in shaping one’s intellect in college. Their style and setting form the backbone of an academic environment, which invariably affects students’ decision in picking colleges....
View ArticleViewpoint: Why I used to carry my college rejection letters in my backpack
I used to carry my college decision letters in my backpack. Well, not all of them. I carried the rejections from Princeton, Stanford and Northwestern, the wait list notifications from the University of...
View ArticleFilmmakers Jaye and Adam Fenderson on their trailblazing college subjects
In 2011, Jaye and Adam Fenderson released their documentary First Generation at a handful of film festivals. For many low-budget indie films, the story often stops there. But this one is only getting...
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It's now 74 times more difficult to get into NASA than Harvard
Photo: Bill Brassard, NASA If you thought Ivy League schools had low admission percentages, you haven’t seen anything yet. It turns out NASA’s astronaut class has an astronomically lower acceptance...
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9 universities file brief against Columbia grad student unionization efforts
Columbia University Library in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Columbia University administrators are getting support from their Ivy League brethren over a pending unionization case with the...
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Harvard faculty members vote in favor of pass-fail curricula change
Harvard University (Photo: Chitose Suzuki, AP) Faculty members of Harvard University’s Arts and Sciences school voted Tuesday to allow students to take as many as half of their general-education...
View ArticleStudent writes college essay about Costco, accepted into five Ivies
If a superstore has impacted your life, you might want to write about it. It seems 18-year-old high school senior Brittany Stinson submitted an essay about her love for Costco and got some pretty good...
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24 free Ivy League courses you can sign up for today
Let’s be real — not everyone can afford to go to an Ivy League school, nor can most people get in to begin with (certainly not I). But lo and behold, the beautiful invention of online education has...
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Columbia and Barnard are the latest schools to drop SAT and ACT requirements
Tired of obsessing over your SAT scores? Don’t worry. Columbia and Barnard are too — among other schools. Barnard College, a women’s liberal arts school in New York City, dropped its SAT Subject Test...
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Yale dishwasher who smashed racist window gets a 'second chance' to work there
A former worker at Yale University, arrested after breaking a stained-glass window that depicted slaves carrying bales of cotton, has been granted a second chance to work at the Ivy League institution....
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For young women in finance, breaking the glass ceiling starts on the...
(Photo: Ingram Publishing/Thinkstock) To successfully shatter the glass ceiling, women may have to start by breaking the floor — the trading floor, that is. Although women in the U.S. Financial...
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