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Was Trump really a top student at Wharton? His classmates say not ... » Feb 15, 2017 ...Given that there are 366 listed 1968 Wharton graduates on QuakerNet, Penn's alumni database, the Dean's List of 56 students represents approximately the top 15 percent of the class. The omission of Trump's name suggests that his academic record at Penn was not as outstanding as he has claimed. Thedp.com

Harvard Professor Slams College For Handing Out Too Many A ... » Dec 4, 2013 ...Getting an A-letter grade isn't above average for undergraduate students at Harvard University; it's the norm. Now, a ...Student newspaper The Harvard Crimson first reported on the exchange. ...“I think students and faculty, the data they have all point to the fact that it's an issue here more than elsewhere.”. Huffingtonpost.com

Ivy League students, professors, alumni ask schools to be ... » Nov 15, 2016 ...Thousands of students, professors, alumni and others at elite schools including Harvard, Yale and Brown have signed petitions asking universities to protect undocumented students after a presidential campaign that made illegal immigration a flash point. President-elect Donald Trump made enforcement of... Washingtonpost.com

Harvard Rescinds Acceptances for At Least Ten Students for ... » Jun 5, 2017 ...A handful of admitted students formed the messaging group—titled, at one point, “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”—on Facebook in late December, according to two incoming freshmen. In the group, students sent each other memes and other images mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust, and... Thecrimson.com

William Deresiewicz on the Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the ... » Aug 19, 2014 ...The former Yale English professor William Deresiewicz stirred up quite a storm earlier this month with his New Republic essay “Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League”—a damning ...Lauren Cassani Davis: How does the phrase “excellent sheep” describe the typical student at an elite college today? Theatlantic.com

Column: How an epidemic of grade inflation made A's average ... » Jun 22, 2016 ...At Yale, where I have been both a student and an instructor, the average GPA has risen considerably over the past 50 years. And my alma mater is ... Professors boosted students' grades in part because if the students did too poorly , they could be shipped off to the war in Vietnam. The B reigned supreme... Pbs.org

The Ivy League Earnings Myth | Best Colleges | US News » Mar 1, 2011 ...In a famous study, two economists tackled this question nearly a decade ago and concluded that Ivy League graduates did not enjoy an earnings advantage monopoly. And now the same economists—Alan Krueger at Princeton University and Stacy Dale at Mathematica Policy Research—have revisited the... Usnews.com

A university takes on one of its own, alumna Kellyanne Conway ... » Feb 17, 2017 ...The University of Pennsylvania's president has no comment about one of the Ivy League school's most famous alumni, President Trump. ...a diverse group of students, faculty, staff and alumni, to foster pride in the institution, and to raise money and support from people on all sides of the political spectrum. Washingtonpost.com

Student protesters demand that universities become sanctuaries for ... » Nov 16, 2016 ...[Ivy League students, professors, alumni ask schools to become sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants]. Enforcement of ...Point newsletter. News and issues affecting higher education. ...Susan Svrluga is a reporter for the Washington Post , covering higher education for the Grade Point blog. Follow @... Washingtonpost.com

Why do colleges still give preference to children of alumni? - The ... » Apr 7, 2017 ...A quarter of the richest students in the country attend a selective, elite college, according to data released this year that was the most comprehensive look to date at the financial background of students on college campuses. At 38 colleges , including five in the Ivy League, there are more students from... Washingtonpost.com