y*****y
发帖数: 1208 | 1 Beida, i know you are hopeless. but again, here is one article by law
professor Heriot on the damaging side of affirmative action in college
admission. read it, moron.......
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a "
critical mass" of African-American and Hispanic students. Many observers
interpreted that decision — Grut... 阅读全帖 |
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y*****y
发帖数: 1208 | 2 Beida, i know you are hopeless. but again, here is one article by law
professor Heriot on the damaging side of affirmative action in college
admission. read it, moron.......
The Say Irony of Affirmative Action by Prof Gail Heriot
In 2003, the Supreme Court held that the University of Michigan's law school
could substantially relax its admissions standards in order to admit a "
critical mass" of African-American and Hispanic students. Many observers
interpreted that decision — Grut... 阅读全帖 |
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d*******r
发帖数: 3875 | 3 Chinese Students Pushed to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools
2011-12-20 21:00:01.0 GMT
By Daniel Golden
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Haiying Wu’s family in Shandong
Province wasn’t religious. After a born-again Texan teaching
English in China advised her that Christian schools in the U.S.
are safe and academically strong, she enrolled at Ben Lippen
High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
Ben Lippen required her to attend church and chapel, take
Bible class, and join a Bible study group. ... 阅读全帖 |
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U**********l
发帖数: 1 | 4 Employment Date: January 2, 2012 - December 21, 2012
Primary Job Responsibilities of Student Services Associate
Assist with course registration and student registration
Maintain faculty files
Coordinate advising tour in China
Assist with summer staff training
Assist with airport pickup arrangements and coordination for
USPP students during Summer 2012
Assist with registration related arrangements and coordination
after stude... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 5 By Stephanie Simon
Getting in can be grueling.
Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original
short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure they would most
like to meet. There are interviews. Exams. And pages of questions for
parents to answer, including: How do you intend to help this school if we
admit your son or daughter?
These aren't college applications. They're applications for seats at charter
schools.
Charters ar... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 6 How some students who refused to take high-stakes standardized tests are
being punished
By Valerie Strauss
SIDEBAR PHOTO: A school bus passes a sign encouraging parents to refuse
that their children take state tests on Monday, April 13, 2015, in Rotterdam
, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
What has come to be known as the "opt out" movement has become something of
a a force in the education reform debate. Hundreds of thousands of parents
have refused to allow their children to take federally mandated... 阅读全帖 |
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l******l
发帖数: 2651 | 7 Source:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Duped-Indian-studen
>>>>
WASHINGTON: Hundreds of Indian students who have gotten scammed by a dodgy
California-based university had it coming. Tri-Valley University (TVU) had a
reputation as a "Diploma Mill" that offered a spurious route to employment
and immigration in the US. Inquiring students and professionals knew about
it, discussed it in immigration forums, and warned others about it.
But eager beavers looking for a short cut to emigrati... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 9 By Stephanie Simon
Getting in can be grueling.
Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original
short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure they would most
like to meet. There are interviews. Exams. And pages of questions for
parents to answer, including: How do you intend to help this school if we
admit your son or daughter?
These aren't college applications. They're applications for seats at charter
schools.
Charters ar... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 10 By Stephanie Simon
Getting in can be grueling.
Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original
short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure they would most
like to meet. There are interviews. Exams. And pages of questions for
parents to answer, including: How do you intend to help this school if we
admit your son or daughter?
These aren't college applications. They're applications for seats at charter
schools.
Charters ar... 阅读全帖 |
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r*********e
发帖数: 29495 | 11 http://autos.yahoo.com/news/chinese-students-major-in-luxury-ca
html
Chinese students at the University of Iowa began coming into Carousel Motors
in Iowa City about three years ago to get their Mercedes-Benz and Audi luxu
ry cars serviced. Finally, general manager Pat Lind started asking if they'd
ever considered his dealership when they made their original purchase. No,
the students told him. Back in China, they'd been told to buy their wheels i
n Chicago before heading to college.
So Lind bega... 阅读全帖 |
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r*********e
发帖数: 29495 | 12 【 以下文字转载自 Automobile 讨论区 】
发信人: renaissance (ole), 信区: Automobile
标 题: Chinese students major in luxury cars
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jan 8 15:49:47 2014, 美东)
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/chinese-students-major-in-luxury-ca
html
Chinese students at the University of Iowa began coming into Carousel Motors
in Iowa City about three years ago to get their Mercedes-Benz and Audi luxu
ry cars serviced. Finally, general manager Pat Lind started asking if they'd
ever considered his dealership when they made... 阅读全帖 |
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a******d
发帖数: 10 | 13 转贴：CHINA Law Blog @
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2012/01/chinese_students_in_america
Chinese Students In America. It's Bad Out There.
Posted by Dan on January 11, 2012
Much has been written about Chinese students coming to American colleges. An
article out today, entitled, "Chinese applications to U.S. schools
skyrocket," starts out quoting a Chinese high schooler who is contemplating
attending the University of Washington:
I know this [ambition] is pretty high,” said the 17-year old Beiji... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 14 （注意——大概有２５０条）
By John K. Jonak
Reflection is a significant part of growth. At Westmont Junior High School,
in Westmont, Illinois, my 8th grade Literacy classes took the PARCC test
this past March. My amazing two 8th grade Literacy teachers understood
there was an interesting lesson within the ongoing discussions about PARCC
testing in both school and political forums. Ms. Nancy Bartosz and Ms.
Colleen Walsh recognized that their students, being stakeholders involved in
this testing process, h... 阅读全帖 |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 15 Which high schools did the Harvard Class of 2012 attend?
Here's the list of schools that had five or more kids go to Harvard in the
freshman class of 2008-9 / senior class of 2012.
20+ students
Boston Latin -- 23 students
10-20 students
Milton Academy -- 14 students (Milton, MA)
Phillips Exeter Academy -- 14 students (Exeter, NH)
Deerfield Academy -- 12 students (Deerfield, MA)
Stuyvesant -- 12 students (New York)
Phillips Academy (Andover) -- 10 students (Andover, MA)
5-9 students
Trinity Schoo... 阅读全帖 |
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t*******y
发帖数: 21396 | 16 Bloomburg Business Week报道，能办绿卡不？
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-19/chinese-student
Chinese students at the University of Iowa began coming into Carousel Motors
in Iowa City about three years ago to get their Mercedes (DAI:GR) and Audi
(NSU:GR) luxury cars serviced. Finally, general manager Pat Lind started
asking if they’d ever considered his dealership when they made their
original purchase. No, the students told him. Back in China, they’d been
told to buy their wheels in Chicago ... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******y
发帖数: 28 | 17 http://articles.philly.com/2014-07-30/news/52192626_1_temple-un
"We cannot ignore the mounting evidence that standardized test scores inject
socio-economic bias into the admissions and financial-aid equations," said
Hai-Lung Dai, Temple's provost and senior vice president for academic
affairs.
In an effort to cultivate talented students who don't test well, Temple
University says it will become the first national public research university
in the Northeast to make standardized test scores option... 阅读全帖 |
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I*****a
发帖数: 5425 | 18 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: tomnjerry (tom jerry), 信区: Military
标 题: 小留上媒体报道了：Chinese Students Major in Luxury Cars
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Dec 23 01:36:13 2013, 美东)
Bloomburg Business Week报道，能办绿卡不？
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-19/chinese-student
Chinese students at the University of Iowa began coming into Carousel Motors
in Iowa City about three years ago to get their Mercedes (DAI:GR) and Audi
(NSU:GR) luxury cars serviced. Finally, general manager Pat Lind started
asking if the... 阅读全帖 |
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g*********s
发帖数: 280 | 19 [This is an interesting and informative news article. You can easily find
that most arguments remain true if you change India in the article to China.
]
By NIDA NAJAR, New York Times, October 13 2011
NEW DELHI — Moulshri Mohan was an excellent student at one of the top
private high schools in New Delhi. When she applied to colleges, she
received scholarship offers of $20,000 from Dartmouth and $15,000 from Smith
. Her pile of acceptance letters would have made any ambitious teenager
smile: Corn... 阅读全帖 |
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B**W
发帖数: 2273 | 20 WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Thousands of college students may soon feel a
financial pinch and another 100,000 may not be able to complete degrees if
Congress pushes ahead with planned changes to federal student loans,
education experts said.
Congress is expected on Friday to pass a budget to fund the federal
government over the next nine months. And the budget makes some big changes
to certain federal student loan programs.
The good news for students is the budget would set maximum level of the
pop... 阅读全帖 |
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c****x
发帖数: 6601 | 21 http://immigrationgirl.com/f-1-students-tell-dhs-to-fix-the-200
F-1 Students: Tell DHS to Fix the 2008 OPT STEM Extension Rule! Sample
Letter Here!
By ImmigrationGirl September 29, 2015 F-1 Students, Legislation 42
Comments
As mentioned during my Teleconference on the impact of Washington Alliance
of Technology Workers v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, I want to
provide affected students with actions they can take to urge the Department
of Homeland Security to re-issue the 2008 rule b... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 22
By Megan Crain
Local students have been taking the ACT in school their junior year for 15
years. The state has been paying for students to take the ACT, but if the
Illinois State Board of Education has its way, students will be taking the
SAT instead of the ACT very soon.
The Board of Education recently awarded a three-year, $14.3-million contract
to the College Board, who distributes the SAT. ACT Inc., the owner of the
ACT, filed a formal protest ag... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 23
By Megan Crain
Local students have been taking the ACT in school their junior year for 15
years. The state has been paying for students to take the ACT, but if the
Illinois State Board of Education has its way, students will be taking the
SAT instead of the ACT very soon.
The Board of Education recently awarded a three-year, $14.3-million contract
to the College Board, who distributes the SAT. ACT Inc., the owner of the
ACT, filed a formal protest ag... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 24
By Megan Crain
Local students have been taking the ACT in school their junior year for 15
years. The state has been paying for students to take the ACT, but if the
Illinois State Board of Education has its way, students will be taking the
SAT instead of the ACT very soon.
The Board of Education recently awarded a three-year, $14.3-million contract
to the College Board, who distributes the SAT. ACT Inc., the owner of the
ACT, filed a formal protest ag... 阅读全帖 |
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a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 25 不是新闻。５个月前的。才看到。感觉太牛了
尤其是这句：
“$40 million is just a drop in the bucket for the university,” Frison said
. “Berkeley already has a $30 to $40 million endowment even though they
have less African American students.”
——————————————————————————————
The Afrikan Student Union called on UCLA to create a Black Resource Center
and a $40 million endowment to address African-American underrepresentation
on campus in a list of demands it released Thursday.
Fourth-year philosophy and African American Studies ... 阅读全帖 |
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c****x
发帖数: 6601 | 26 F-1 Students: Tell DHS to Fix the 2008 OPT STEM Extension Rule! Sample
Letter Here!
By ImmigrationGirl September 29, 2015 F-1 Students, Legislation 42
Comments
As mentioned during my Teleconference on the impact of Washington Alliance
of Technology Workers v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, I want to
provide affected students with actions they can take to urge the Department
of Homeland Security to re-issue the 2008 rule by February 2016. Many of you
have already sent emails to the Dep... 阅读全帖 |
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l******l
发帖数: 2651 | 27 Source:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/04/18/more-latino-than-wh
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — More Latino than white students in California
have been offered admission to the state’s premier public universities for
the first time, officials said Friday, a milestone that reflects the diverse
racial makeup of a state where Latino children represent a majority of
students in public schools.
Preliminary admissions data show that 17,589 Latino students have been
accepted as freshmen at one of th... 阅读全帖 |
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l***i
发帖数: 2542 | 28 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/05/hard
A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences finds that hard work is the reason why Asian-American students do
better in school than their white peers.
But the authors of the study also found that, by some measures, Asian youth
may not be as happy. Asians in surveys were less likely to agree with the
statement "I feel good about myself," and they reported spending less time
with friends and feel... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****7
发帖数: 8463 | 29 1
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/124437/princeton-students-calling-woodrow-
wilsons-racism-good
Princeton students are calling out Woodrow Wilson's racism. Good.While
protesters at Mizzou may have taken down a university system president, some
students at Princeton are going after an even more imposing foe: our 28th
president.
Student activists held a sit-in last week demanding that Princeton remove
the name of the alumnus and former professor and university president from
all campus buildings,... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****e
发帖数: 8596 | 30 【 以下文字转载自 Faculty 讨论区 】
发信人: Adama (日月星辰), 信区: Faculty
标 题: A Ph.D. student
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Dec 21 22:51:29 2012, 美东)
If any of you have samilar experience on taking in a student who switched
from another professor's group, please kindly read my story and give me some
suggestions. Thank you for your help in advance.
********************--------------------------
A first yr Ph.D. student wants to switch to my group. He wasn't happy with
his previous topic and his advisor was not satisfied a... 阅读全帖 |
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E*V
发帖数: 17544 | 31 Chinese Students Pushed to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools
2011-12-20 21:00:01.0 GMT
By Daniel Golden
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Haiying Wu’s family in Shandong
Province wasn’t religious. After a born-again Texan teaching
English in China advised her that Christian schools in the U.S.
are safe and academically strong, she enrolled at Ben Lippen
High School in Columbia, South Carolina.
Ben Lippen required her to attend church and chapel, take
Bible class, and join a Bible study group. At first, ... 阅读全帖 |
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s*********8
发帖数: 901 | 32 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University and student groups are condemning
the monitoring of Muslim college students across the Northeast by the New
York Police Department, while Rutgers University and leaders of Muslim
groups are calling for investigations.
The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more
broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits,
including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania
, The Associated Pres... 阅读全帖 |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 33 Life sentence in Chinese students' slayings
Associated Press
By LINDA DEUTSCH 2 hours ago
FILE - An April 13, 2012, file combo made from undated file photos provided
by the Los Angeles Police Department shows shooting victims Ming Qu, left,
and Ying Wu, two University of Southern California students from China. The
23-year-old engineering students were shot on April 11, 2012 while sitting
in a parked car in a neighborhood near the University of Southern California
campus. Javier Bolden, 22, wa... 阅读全帖 |
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y**********a
发帖数: 824 | 34 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/09/colorado-immigrant-t
The cheers of immigrant students echoed through the Colorado Capitol on
Friday after the House passed a bill allowing students who entered the U.S.
illegally to pay lower college tuition, a measure that will soon become law.
Students hugged and wiped away tears outside the House chamber after the
vote, sending the proposal to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is
expected to sign it sometime this month.
The historic vote comes a... 阅读全帖 |
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A***a
发帖数: 73 | 35 If any of you have samilar experience on taking in a student who switched
from another professor's group, please kindly read my story and give me some
suggestions. Thank you for your help in advance.
********************--------------------------
A first yr Ph.D. student wants to switch to my group. He wasn't happy with
his previous topic and his advisor was not satisfied about his work.
The first time, the student came to me and said his advisor knew that he was
talking with me about the trans... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 36 TO: Illinois High School Guidance Counselors and Mathematics Teachers
FROM: Dr. Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, FSA, CERA, FSAS, CFA, MAAA
Actuarial Program Director, Illinois State University
DATE: January 2016
SUBJECT: Midwest High School Scholars Actuarial Academy For Underrepresented
Groups/Summer Programs for high school students at Illinois State
University
Illinois State University will be conducting the 21st annual Midwest High
School Scholars Actuarial Academy For Under... 阅读全帖 |
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a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 37 TO: Illinois High School Guidance Counselors and Mathematics Teachers
FROM: Dr. Krzysztof M. Ostaszewski, FSA, CERA, FSAS, CFA, MAAA
Actuarial Program Director, Illinois State University
DATE: January 2016
SUBJECT: Midwest High School Scholars Actuarial Academy For Underrepresented
Groups/Summer Programs for high school students at Illinois State
University
Illinois State University will be conducting the 21st annual Midwest High
School Scholars Actuarial Academy For Under... 阅读全帖 |
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d*2
发帖数: 2053 | 38 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101209/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_tuition_tangle
LONDON – In Britain's worst political violence in years, furious student
protesters rained sticks and rocks on riot police, vandalized government
buildings and attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla,
after lawmakers approved a controversial hike in university tuition fees.
Demonstrators set upon the heir to the throne's limousine as it drove
through London's West End shopping and entertainment hub. Pr... 阅读全帖 |
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x**********r
发帖数: 835 | 39 上次不是有个free 1年的 amazon student membership的deal吗，原本以为到期后就恢
复79一年了呢，昨天发现还可以free再续，分享给大家。
有的人说到期不cancel会收费的，但我上次的到期后自动就停止membership了，我确
定没有cancel过的。我刚才又重新注册了这个student prime member，也成功了，没让
我交钱啊，到期日期是7/10/12. 看term里面说有效期是4年或不再是学生了，哪个先到
算哪个。扫了几眼，没仔细看，贴上来
If you sign up for an Amazon Student membership, you will receive certain
Amazon Prime benefits free for an initial period as indicated in the Amazon
Student program pages at the time you sign up. These benefits include an
initial period of FREE Two-Da... 阅读全帖 |
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p*****s
发帖数: 4393 | 40 今天看到的一篇文章
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-06/student-loan-market-re
Student-Loan Market Recalls Subprime Crisis for U.S. Treasury
By Jeanna Smialek Nov 6, 2014 2:45 PM ET - Comments Email Print
Facebook
Twitter
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Save
The Treasury Department is looking at the rise of American student-loan debt
and seeing worrying similarities to the U.S. housing-market bubble.
Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin today voiced concern that education-loan
borrowers could turn to repayment s... 阅读全帖 |
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p*****s
发帖数: 4393 | 41 今天看到的一篇文章
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-06/student-loan-market-re
Student-Loan Market Recalls Subprime Crisis for U.S. Treasury
By Jeanna Smialek Nov 6, 2014 2:45 PM ET - Comments Email Print
Facebook
Twitter
Google+
LinkedIn
Save
The Treasury Department is looking at the rise of American student-loan debt
and seeing worrying similarities to the U.S. housing-market bubble.
Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin today voiced concern that education-loan
borrowers could turn to repayment s... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****7
发帖数: 8463 | 43 http://www.jta.org/1967/04/18/archive/doors-of-ivy-league-colle
Doors of Ivy League Colleges Reported Wide Open for Jewish Students
April 18, 1967
NEW YORK (Apr. 17)
Enrollment of Jewish students in the Ivy League colleges has grown vastly in
recent years, and decided steps toward opening more Ivy League doors to
Jews have been taken this year, it was revealed here today.
According to a survey of this year’s admission policies at the Ivy League
institutions, published today by The New York Times... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****7
发帖数: 8463 | 44 Jewish students super-dominated in enrollment
in Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornel, Brown, U Penn
http://philebersole.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/asian-americans-je
Ebersole's Blog
thoughts about politics and the passing scene
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« Tweety’s prayer
The Ivy League as gatekeepers for the elite »
Asian-Americans, Jews and Ivy League admissions
eliteenrollment-large
Degrees from the Ivy League colleges —... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 45 Politico Forgets to Mention Democrats Caused Student Loan Interest Rate Hike
Problem
July 5, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
In its update on the coming student loan interest rate hike deal in Congress
, Politico dances its blame-the-GOP tap dance once again saying that the
coming rate hike is all just “politics.” But somehow Politico forgets to
note that this interest rate problem is of the Democrats’ own making in the
first place.
Reporting that Congress has signed off on a bipartisan deal to hal... 阅读全帖 |
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B******1
发帖数: 9094 | 46 If you read the comments, you would find the following "noise":
1)Jewess says:
December 29, 2012 at 8:02 pm
The statistical analysis used in this article is flawed. The author uses
last names to identify the religion (or birth heritage) of NMS semifinalists
? Are you serious? My son was a (recent) National Merit Finalist and
graduated from an ivy league university. His mother is Jewish; his father is
not, thus he has a decidedly WASP surname and according to the author’s
methods he would have be... 阅读全帖 |
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B******1
发帖数: 9094 | 47 If you read the comments, you would find the following "noise":
1)Jewess says:
December 29, 2012 at 8:02 pm
The statistical analysis used in this article is flawed. The author uses
last names to identify the religion (or birth heritage) of NMS semifinalists
? Are you serious? My son was a (recent) National Merit Finalist and
graduated from an ivy league university. His mother is Jewish; his father is
not, thus he has a decidedly WASP surname and according to the author’s
methods he would have be... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 49 http://www.jta.org/1967/04/18/archive/doors-of-ivy-league-colle
Doors of Ivy League Colleges Reported Wide Open for Jewish Students
April 18, 1967
NEW YORK (Apr. 17)
Enrollment of Jewish students in the Ivy League colleges has grown vastly in
recent years, and decided steps toward opening more Ivy League doors to
Jews have been taken this year, it was revealed here today.
According to a survey of this year’s admission policies at the Ivy League
institutions, published today by The New York Times... 阅读全帖 |
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