They are among the most selective of New York City's so-called specialized high schools, not the three most selective.
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Meanwhile, philanthropic giving to the most selective schools has skyrocketed.
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The schools with better aid packages were also the most selective.
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Increasing numbers of students are applying to the most selective institutions.
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Finland's tertiary education system is one of the most selective in Europe.
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Rising stars on their way to the most selective high schools in Maryland.
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In fact, Cal is one of the most selective public colleges in the country.
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Intentionally or not, they fuel a frenzy to get into the most selective schools.
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College does enable social mobility, but it's not happening at the most selective schools.
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Data shows that Asian-American students are overrepresented at many of America's most selective schools.
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Data shows that Asian American students are overrepresented at many of America's most selective schools.
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Many scientists get rejected from the most selective journals and go for an easier one.
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Acceptance by one of the 20-50 most selective schools will provide life-altering opportunities.
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The Marines, the most selective of the armed services, came to campus twice a week.
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Ostensibly, the most selective schools don't take vouchers, and they have little incentive to do so.
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The scandal has sparked an intense discussion about wealth, privilege, and access to America's most selective schools.
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Many of the most selective schools also appear at the top of many college and university rankings.
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The degree is not offered by any of the country's most selective law schools nor the largest ones.
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New York City's most selective public high schools admit just a tiny number of black students each year.
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Yet last week only seven black students were offered slots at New York's most selective high school, Stuyvesant.
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She went on to the Bronx High School of Science, one of the city's most selective high schools.
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Also, as the population continues to grow, slots at the most selective colleges are more competitive than ever.
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These days it seems as if the most selective colleges are competing to reject as many applicants as possible.
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The laws used to charge improper dissemination of classified information also subject people to the most selective prosecution imaginable.
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With the admissions season just about wrapped up, many colleges are saying it was their most selective year yet.
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When students apply to all the most selective schools, many of which are very different, is it about fit?
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Imagine being one of the few black and Hispanic students at one of the country's most selective public schools.
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That year, about 10 percent of the students who attended Stuyvesant, the most selective of the schools, were black.
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But Stuyvesant High School, historically the most selective of the city's public specialized schools, is not a typical school.
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When I'm meeting with an entrepreneur, I highlight that we're one of the most selective — if not the most selective — firm when it comes to these investments, because we see thousands of companies each year and we only partner with a couple per investor, and about half the time, that's a seed investment.
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Swots from Cambridge, the most selective university in Britain, earn almost £22013,433 a year on average five years after graduating.
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Many more low- and middle-income students are qualified to attend America's most selective colleges and universities than currently do.
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This summer, his panel released a report recommending the elimination of most selective admissions and all gifted and talented programs.
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Meanwhile, whites still fill most of the seats at the most selective institutions, which spend the most on their students.
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Only 21 black students got into the most selective public high school in New York City, out of 26 spots.
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But imagine being one of the few black and Hispanic students at one of the country's most selective public schools.
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It is one of the most selective schools in the country: Only 18303% of applicants are admitted, according to US News.
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Harvard accepted just 5.2 percent of applicants this year, making it the second-most selective college in the country after Stanford.
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Harvard accepted 5.2 percent of applicants this year, making this admissions cycle the most selective in its nearly four-century history.
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Consider the ACT and the SAT, the college entrance exams required for admission to most selective colleges in the United States.
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In California, where public colleges are forbidden to consider students' race, the most selective colleges have a high share of Asian students.
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ERIC M. NELSON New York I am a freshman at a top liberal arts college, one of the nation's most selective institutions.
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Scroll through to find out the most selective school in each state, along with their acceptance rate and SAT/ACT score range.
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The most selective colleges enroll more students from the top one percent of the income distribution than from the entire bottom half.
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Several of the nation's most selective universities trumpeted the news that they had record numbers of applicants — and record low admission rates.
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Pace and Stony Brook are probably the most selective of the bunch, and they're substantially less selective than US News's top schools.
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Pupils who excel end up in the best, most selective schools, and can expect a future of foreign study and top government jobs.
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Legacy students tend to be wealthy and white, two demographics that are already disproportionately represented at many colleges, especially the most selective ones.
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Founded by Nunn a year after his visit, Deep Springs is perhaps the most isolated and most selective small university in the world.
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He urged state lawmakers to change the admissions method for New York's most selective schools, which admit students based on one standardized test.
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Roughly 60 percent of the most selective four-year schools consider race in admissions, an American Council on Education survey found last year.
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For instance, Deep Springs College is one of the most selective schools in the country and only 10 percent of applicants are accepted.
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The protest at Beacon, one of New York City's most selective public schools, illustrates the widening scope of the push for school integration.
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It is one of the most selective schools in New York: Last year, there were over 5,800 applications for 360 ninth-grade seats.
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This year, only seven black students received offers to Stuyvesant High School, the most selective of the specialized schools, out of 895 seats.
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Chelsea and Ivanka likely never have to "dumb it down" when they're hanging out: They both attended some of the country's most selective universities.
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That should be not surprising, given the vast gulf in measurable academic achievement along racial lines for students admitted to America's most selective colleges.
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The earning power of children from low-income families definitively improves if they attend the most selective colleges, as compared to less selective ones.
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"It's by far the most selective compound, compared to other SSRIs that affect other neurotransmitters and interact with more metabolizing enzymes," says its creator.
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If you are spending thousands of dollars and thousands of hours cultivating your children to get them into the most selective institutions: Just stop.
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Last June, the University of Chicago — one of the most selective colleges in the country — dropped SAT and ACT scores to diversify its freshman class.
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The bottom line: Think about the appropriate school for your child, which may not necessarily be an Ivy League institution or the most selective college.
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With regard to elites' service, ROTC programs are rare at the nation's most selective colleges and produce a fraction of the graduates they once did.
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A 2019 ranking of business-school admission rates showed Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) at the top of the list of most selective schools.
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Some of the nation's most selective institutions enroll more students from the top 1 percent of the income ladder than from the bottom 60 percent.
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One of the most selective schools in the University of California school system, the University of California, Los Angeles, is known for its strong athletics department.
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One of the most selective schools in the University of California school system, the University of California, Los Angeles, is known for its strong athletics department.
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At the country's most selective schools, three percent of students come from families in the bottom economic quartile, while the top economic quartile supplies 225 percent.
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Legal experts say at the very least, the case will expose the sometimes arcane admissions practices of one of the most selective institutions in the world.
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Black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in many of the most selective screened middle and high schools, just as they are in the specialized high schools.
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In 2019, the MIT Sloan School of Management&aposs acceptance rate was 1353%, making it the sixth most selective school among all top US MBA programs.
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These slots are often in addition to those reserved for the truly elite athletes who receive athletic scholarships or their equivalent at the most selective universities.
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Elite Colleges Announce Record Low Admission Rates in Wake of College Cheating Scandal It is harder than ever to get into the nation's most selective universities.
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"They suggest that the most selective schools do better than others within their sector and basically earn returns that are no worse than average," the researchers added.
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But figures from the OECD, a rich-country club, show that some of the most equal countries in Europe have the most selective systems, and vice versa.
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But the most selective often have lengthy applications, requiring students to submit test results and official documents or give their history of disciplinary problems or special education.
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Nonetheless, mismatch research demonstrates that overmatched black undergraduates are far more likely to succeed in college and receive a degree when enrolled at the most selective institutions.
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More than 850 accredited, bachelor-degree-granting institutions, including 200 of the most selective in the country, no longer require applicants to submit scores from any standardized exam.
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Colleges, especially the most selective ones, have become the chief setting for the country's ongoing argument over whether we should take account of race and, if so, how.
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That group announced its main recommendations on Tuesday, calling for the city to adopt a far-reaching plan, eliminating most selective admissions and all gifted and talented programs.
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That group announced its main recommendations on Tuesday, calling for the city to adopt a far-reaching plan, eliminating most selective admissions and all gifted and talented programs.
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Its acceptance rate of just 14 percent makes Carey the fourth most selective MBA program behind only Stanford, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
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Barros calls her a "quiet role model" and kvells about her stellar grades at Hunter, which is one of the most selective and prestigious public schools in the country.
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Bronx Science is one of the most selective of the city's so-called specialized high schools, a group that also includes Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School.
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That was the message this week as several of the nation's most selective universities trumpeted the news that they had record numbers of applicants — and record low admission rates.
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Whites in positions of power often preside over policy decisions that reproduce the reign of whiteness reign in the American academy, especially at the most selective colleges and universities.
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In some ways, framing affirmative action as problematic in college admissions isn't entirely fair, and the conversation largely revolves around a small number of the most selective schools in America.
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Founded in 1922, the headmaster of The Webb Schools in Claremont, California, touts the school's excellent track record when it comes to students getting into the nation's most selective colleges.
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Even though he didn't rank at the top of his class, college admissions expert Danny Ruderman made him apply to Stanford, one of the most selective colleges in the country.
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The exchange signaled that the trial was delivering on the plaintiffs' promise to lay bare secrets of the admissions process at one of the world's most selective and prestigious universities.
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The 58-year-old Englishman is one of the most selective actors in the industry: In a career that has spanned nearly five decades, he's participated in only 11 films.
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He is president of the student government at Stuyvesant High School, among New York City's most selective public schools, and leads the student advisory council for the borough of Manhattan.
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As the frenzied college application season draws to a close, and students across the country mull their choices, many colleges are trumpeting that it was the most selective year ever.
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Always athletic growing up, she made up her mind in high school to join the military, and chose the Marines, she said, because it was the most selective and demanding.
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Harvard, one of the most selective universities in the world, had said it does not discriminate but instead uses race as one of many factors to build classes of diverse backgrounds.
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Several of the most selective colleges and universities also appear at the top of many college and university rankings, such as the list published annually by U.S. News and World Report.
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Contrary to Scalia's controversial contention, the data show that black students tend to have much higher graduation rates at the most selective colleges and universities than at the less selective ones.
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That means those schools — mostly the wealthiest and most selective institutions — make their admissions decisions without looking at a family's ability to pay and promise to meet their full financial need.
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Yet at the most selective universities, the percentage of low-income students increased by just 3 points while the percentage of admissions of students from the wealthiest households rose by 4 points.
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Debate has raged for years over whether most selective schools do well because they provide a better education than state schools, or merely because they cream off the brightest and most privileged.
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Vance charged him anyway, apparently following the Bialystock script by making a splashy premiere and satisfying voters who want to see this one individual prosecuted in the most selective and grandiose way.
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Nearly three-quarters of students at America's most selective colleges and universities are from households in the top quarter of the income bracket, according to a recent Jack Kent Cooke Foundation report.
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Athletes are extras, dates occur during curling practices, and there is a little thrill in being granted access to the backstage of one of the world's most selective and stage-managed events.
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Division III is also the largest tier, with nearly 450 institutions, including many of the country's most selective small liberal arts colleges, where acceptance rates can be as low as 15 percent.
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In some ways, framing affirmative action as creating a widespread problem in college admissions isn't entirely accurate, and the conversation largely revolves around a small number of the most selective schools in America.
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The only useful proxy is earnings, but a study of alumni of America's most selective colleges by Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger found that their higher earnings were explained by background and intellect.
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But Westminster is one of Britain's most selective schools, attracts bright pupils from all over the world and spends four and a half times as much per child as the public sector does.
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This year, out of the 22012 students accepted to Stuyvesant High School, New York City's most selective specialized high school, only seven were Black, less than 21971% of this year's incoming freshman class.
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Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selective engineering institutions in the world, with headquarters in Lagos, Nairobi, and NYC.
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He not only gained admission to Harvard, one of the most selective universities in the world, he also applied for and won 24 scholarships totaling $90,000 — enough to go to school for free.
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Wealthy, mostly white parents paid $200 subscribe to a newsletter that provided them with inside tips on how to get their kids into the city's most selective schools, The New York Times reported.
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"Why Did New York's Most Selective Public High School Admit Only 7 Black Students?" was produced by Jonathan Wolfe, Rachel Quester, Theo Balcomb, Andy Mills and Jessica Cheung, and edited by Paige Cowett.
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The most selective institutions, she found, spend a lot more on each undergraduate than other colleges do, and they give a significant boost in lifetime earnings, on average, to the students they enroll.
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The institution that governs the town Mayor Pete oversees and grew up in—he lived there until he attended Harvard in 2000—is one of the most selective private universities in the country.
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Matthew Chingos, director of the Urban Institute's education policy program, literally wrote the book on this, and concluded: Students were most likely to graduate by attending the most selective institution that would admit them.
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Nevertheless, the most selective award of all could come in mid-December if the IDSA decides to designate 1,400 square miles in the central park of the state as an International Dark Sky Reserve.
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Stuyvesant is the most selective of the eight schools in the specialized high school system; it requires at least a score of 557 (out of 800) on the entrance exam known as the SHSAT.
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Parents and diversity activists across the city have criticized the academic screening process used in the most selective middle schools and high schools to admit top students, leaving other schools filled with struggling students.
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Part of the problem is that the process of applying to college is confusing — and competitive, particularly for the most selective universities, said Elizabeth Heaton, vice president of educational counseling at Bright Horizons' College Coach.
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In the June lottery, only about one in 725 out of the 2.7 million applicants was granted a license plate, according to official data, making the system one of the most selective in the country.
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Court documents and testimony in the trial, which is expected to last three weeks, has exposed the some of the arcane admissions practices and terms of one of the most selective institutions in the world.
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The New York Times recently profiled the struggle to integrate the city's public schools after less than 1% of the 895 slots at one of New York's most selective high schools were offered to black students.
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Stuyvesant, the most selective of the schools, has the highest cutoff score for admission, and now has the lowest percentage of black and Hispanic students of any of New York City's roughly 215 public high schools.
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Fifteen years ago, Daniel Golden won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles that exposed the depth of advantage enjoyed by privileged white students seeking entrance to the nation's most selective institutions of higher learning.
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I always have a mental red circle around the date that tens of thousands of eighth-grade students in New York City find out if they got into one of the city's most selective high schools.
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A new study from Voices, a student program run by the Asian American Journalists Association, finds that 2 out of 3 summer interns from 7 top newsrooms came from among the most selective colleges in America.
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She had played the most selective schedule of her career — only eight tournaments in 2016 — and her sporadic play had allowed Angelique Kerber to end Williams's three-and-a-half year reign atop the world rankings.
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For graduates of top law schools, a job as a federal prosecutor is a brass ring, and the Southern District of New York, which has jurisdiction over Wall Street, is the most selective office of them all.
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Andrew M. Cuomo to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have mostly avoided taking a definitive position — even as black and Hispanic students are grappling with increasingly steep odds of admission into the city's eight most selective public schools.
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When he joined the military, he sought out one of its most selective and difficult programs, graduating from the Navy's Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in 1998 and serving as part of the Navy SEALs until 2005.
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We have also launched the American Talent Initiative, a coalition of 22005 of the most selective colleges and universities that are committed to increasing the number of lower-income, high-achieving students that they accept and graduate.
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She graduated less than a decade ago from one of the most selective colleges in the country, but was haunted by her knowledge that it accepted her partly — and maybe largely — because her parents are big donors.
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The rankings nourish the myth that the richest, most selective colleges have some corner on superior education; don't adequately recognize public institutions that prioritize access and affordability; and do insufficient justice to the particular virtues of individual campuses.
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As the competition to get into the most selective colleges intensifies, high-achieving students are attending academic summer schools to turbocharge grade-point averages or load up on the A.P. courses seen as gateways to top-tier schools.
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"We're not here to be the most perfect mathematicians, if I wanted to do that I would have gone to Stuyvesant," said Eryka Anabell, an 18-year-old senior, referring to New York's most selective public high school.
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We meet Clara, whose father takes a list of the 100 most selective universities in the country, draws a line under the top 30 and tells Clara she is only allowed to apply to schools above the line.
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Looking at a broader universe of the 146 most selective private colleges and universities, 63% of their entering class is white, according to calculations by Jeff Strohl, research director at the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce.
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The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, where I am executive director, reported in a study released earlier this year that at our nation's most selective colleges, a mere 3% of students come from families with the lowest 25% of incomes.
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Yet, nearly two-thirds of Hispanic students end up in underserved community colleges or second-tier public universities and only 15 percent attend one of the 85033 most selective colleges, according to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce.
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And so the current students of America's most selective schools have perfect or close to perfect SAT scores, 4.0 GPAs, as many AP classes as they can possibly take, tons of extracurricular activities, and generally less sleep than is medically recommended.
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Since college coaches can often recommend more athletes to the admissions department than a team needs, why not buy a few slots from the coaches and sell them to parents desperate to get their children into the most selective universities?
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Since "The Daily" aired an episode about the small number of black students winning admission to New York's most selective public high schools, the most prestigious of those schools, Stuyvesant, has given offers of admission to several more black students.
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Stanford&aposs MBA program has an acceptance rate of 5.1%, making it one of the most selective programs in the US.Stanford GSB&aposs career management center head and assistant dean, Jamie Schein, told Business Insider what makes a successful Stanford applicant.
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In 2019, its 11.5% acceptance rate, according to Poets & Quants, ranked it as the sixth most selective school among all top US MBA programs, ahead of Columbia Business School, Dartmouth&aposs Tuck School of Business, and the Yale School of Management.
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In a courtroom packed with family and friends, a former teacher and debate coach at one of New York City's most selective high schools was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to seven years in prison for having received child pornography.
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Universities like Stevens Point are experiencing the opposite of what is happening at some of the nation's most selective schools, like Harvard, Northwestern and the University of California, Berkeley, where floods of applications have led to overwhelming numbers of rejected students.
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This means that a majority of the children had no real chance of getting into the most selective schools, like Manhattan/Hunter Science High School or Townsend Harris High School in Queens, where students must have a 2675 or higher on the tests.
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As a former admissions dean at Yale Law School, I worry about another group of victims: future talented college applicants from underprivileged backgrounds who may opt out of reaching for the most selective schools, believing that the deck is already stacked against them.
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So rather than meekly paying whatever we are told, up to nearly $75,000 a year, all-in, at the most selective colleges, perhaps we ought to be a bit more greedy when demanding data, and more assertive about seeking demonstrated proof of value.
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But we need to acknowledge that some of these mammoth donations, even while tendered for selfish reasons, add to a pool of money that enables these most selective schools to be need-blind when it comes to the low-income students they do admit.
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The line of parents waiting to get a tour of Beacon High School in Manhattan, one of the most selective schools in New York City, went down West 43rd Street, across 10th Avenue, up West 453th Street, across 11th Avenue and back up West 43rd.
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Only 103 Black Students Got Into Stuyvesant, N.Y.'s Most Selective High School, Out of 210 Spots The tiny number of black students offered admission to New York City's elite public high schools adds pressure on officials to confront the challenge of integrating those schools.
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Harvard and Yale are two of the three most selective law schools in the country; if you trust their admissions processes, they're screening for the smartest and most talented would-be lawyers in the country, which is exactly who you want on the Court.
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But next year, such students could be offered a quarter of the sixth-grade seats at even the most selective middle schools in Manhattan's District 210 as part of a desegregation plan being debated in the district, which stretches from the Upper West Side to Harlem.
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In Manhattan's District 3, which includes the Upper West Side and Harlem, a new desegregation plan will set aside one quarter of the seats at even the most selective middle schools for poor students with low grades and standardized test scores, broadening the mix of children at the schools.
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In a national sample of 2628 black students who first enrolled at the most selective four-year colleges and universities during the 28503-22019 academic year, 66 percent of these students received degrees, as compared to a graduation rate of only 23 percent for black undergraduates enrolled at minimally selective colleges – the institutions Scalia recommended.
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The proposed changes to the specialized-high-school admissions came in response to the declining numbers of black and Latino students enrolled in them: this year, African-American students qualified for just seven of the nearly nine hundred places at Stuyvesant High School, the most selective in the system; Latino students got thirty-three.
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Comparing black students with similar academic qualifications, data from the 2003 – 2009 Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey show that mismatched (overmatched) black undergraduates – those with low GPAs and standardized SAT/ACT scores matriculating at the most selective schools – were far more likely to earn a degree within 6 years than were their peers attending minimally selective institutions that matched their academic qualifications.
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Frank Bruni PALO ALTO, California — Cementing its standing as the most selective institution of higher education in the country, Stanford University announced this week that it had once again received a record-setting number of applications and that its acceptance rate — which had dropped to a previously uncharted low of 5 percent last year — plummeted all the way to its inevitable conclusion of 0 percent.
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In 242, a Harvard researcher who studied 26 of the nation's most selective schools found that all legacy applicants had a 232 percent higher probability of admission, while "primary legacy" students (those with a parent who attended the school as an undergraduate, rather than, say, a grandparent or aunt) had a 2100 percent higher probability compared with their peers, all other things being equal.
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In 242, a Harvard researcher who studied 26 of the nation's most selective schools found that all legacy applicants had a 232 percent higher probability of admission, while "primary legacy" students (those with a parent who attended the school as an undergraduate, rather than, say, a grandparent or aunt) had a 2100 percent higher probability compared with their peers, all other things being equal.
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"Equity considerations related to early decision have long been a concern within higher education, but this is the first time in my memory that the issue has come up in the context of antitrust concerns," American Council on Education senior vice president Terry Hartle told Inside Higher Ed. Dozens of American universities have early decision options, including some of the most selective schools in the country such as Johns Hopkins, Cornell and Dartmouth universities.
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According to a report from the Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce, enrollment in the four hundred and sixty-eight best-funded and most selective four-year institutions is seventy-five per cent white, while enrollment in the thirty-two hundred and fifty lowest-funded community colleges and four-year universities is forty-three per cent black and Hispanic, a pattern of de-facto segregation which mirrors that of the country's public schools.
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