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Institutional Prestige. So far, the pressures have been greatest at the top graduate schools-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, California at Berkeley, M.I.T. and Caltech. "Students too often seem to seek out institutional prestige instead of departmental prestige," comments Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard, who contends that there are "pockets of inadequately used graduate capacity" at many good schools. Out of 5,246 applicants last fall, Harvard took only 1,853. Yale's Law School got 2,000 applications for 165 openings. Michigan's graduate office mailed out 20,000 applications, got 12,000 back, accepted half, enrolled...
Most seniors apply early in the year, then wait with dramatic desolati "My fate depends on a couple of people sitting in an office 2,000 miles away," says a Yale senior. Vanderbilt Senior Robert Thiel worked three days on his application to Yale, including a five-page essay and translation of a long English paragraph into German and French, got a one-sentence rejection. He spent five hours on his Stanford application, got a two-paragraph form rejection. It took him only 15 minutes to apply to the University of Virginia, where he was accepted...
...read your story with interest and a touch of envy. With an enrollment of only about 5,000, instead of 50,000, and lacking the stimulating influence of an off-campus all-purpose rebel fringe community of another 10,000, Vanderbilt cannot match the flesh-colored originality of Berkeley's sensual free-for-alls...
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