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...that made headlines around the world; this February, the national press largely cast Harvard in a rosy glow after the University selected its first woman president in its 371-year history. And yet, the admissions yield figures for 2007 and 2006 were separated by just six-tenths of a percent...
Harvard’s rate tends to be well above that of other highly selective institutions. Last year, Princeton and Stanford both reported yields of 69 percent, and Yale’s yield was 71 percent...
...admissions office points to the expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative—which will cover about 25 percent of the incoming class—as well as extensive recruiting efforts as major factors in the College’s high yield rates. The College expanded the initiative this year, making a Harvard education free for students whose families make less than $60,000 and lessening the required contribution for families that make between...
What he didn’t know about the teenager was his ethnicity. And, more specifically, that Vance’s arrival had just increased the 1.2 percent of Asian/Pacific Islanders to play baseball in Division...
...fact, whereas Asians comprise roughly 2 percent of all NCAA Division I recruits, approximately 6 percent of Harvard’s student-athletes is Asian, compared to 17 percent of the student body...