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...example, an increase in the rankings by one place can causes a school's admit rate to decrease by 0.399 percent, its yield to increase by 0.171 percent, and its average SAT score to increase by 2.777 points. Schools that rise in the rankings also offer slightly less generous financial aid packages...
Indeed, Harvard has seen a steady decline in its admit rate over the past several years despite minor fluctuations in rank. The College also introduced major increases in financial aid last year, despite being ranked first by U.S. News...
...Okay, I admit I wouldn't keep files of index cards with the names of all of my Harvard acquaintances. And I might think it was a little weird if one of my friends did. But I no longer consider it strange that an old high school friend and member of the class of 2003 approached me, and unable to contain her enthusiasm at her recent acceptance, whispered to me conspiratorially "I'm a member of the club...
...There, he makes self-confessed terrible music with similarly soft-spoken, sensitively-slanted friends. Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" was the first song to make a dent in his consciousness, but the Backstreet Boys haunt him now as the curdle of the pop crop. He won't admit it, but Brad knows...
...claims to have a blockbuster e-commerce idea--he just won't tell Chin what it is. Chin will take his chances. Like every young VC in the Valley, he needs to land a big IPO score to become a real player. He's too sure of himself to admit being worried that many of the companies he backs will never make it that far. "It's a guess; it's a bank shot--you throw it on the wall and hope for something," he says. "I'd like to have one big success, but I could just as easily...