A few months back, 17 medical school students at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine were accused of cheating on online exams. The scandal even made the cover of The New York Times. In a year in which one of the two namesakes of the medical school, Theodor Seuss Geisel …
The 2022 edition of the US News & World Report ranking of graduate programs is hot off the presses. For those not familiar with university rankings, many magazines rank colleges. But the kingpin of all such rankings? That would be — you guessed it — US News & World Report. …
It’s one of the laws of physics. Or at least one of the laws of physics as according to Ivy Coach. Maybe not according to Newton. When the economy tanks, applications to graduate schools soar. This law of physics applies — in particular — to our nation’s elite graduate business …
This will not be President Trump’s Wharton. The times they are a-changin’ at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The elite business school recently hired Erika James as its new dean and, well, Dr. James has no intention of maintaining the status quo. Rather, she believes business students …
Maybe it’s because of RBG. Maybe it’s because the LSAT is now offered online. Maybe it’s because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whatever the reason, law school applications are up this year — and they are up big time. As compared to this time last year, law school applications across the …
In ninth grade algebra class, we learned the fundamentals of logic. If p, then q. Well, we’ve got an if p, then q for our readers today. Historically, if the economy tanks, applications to business school rise. We’ve been writing about this trend for many years and in fact the …
As loyal readers of our blog know all too well, we have never been afraid to use our soapbox in the arena of admissions to call out admissions practices that we believe aren’t right. We do so in an effort to bend these practices towards a more just system. It …
We’ve heard the argument countless times over the years: It doesn’t matter where you go to college — or law school for that matter. You can as good of an education at a state school as you can at an Ivy League school. We, of course, don’t agree with this …
In light of all the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, many of our nation’s elite universities have assured this year’s batch of high school seniors that they can choose to take a gap year if they so wished. Our nation’s top MBA programs, however, have not all been as flexible with …
There’s an old rule of thumb: As the economy sinks, graduate school applications rise and as the economy rises, graduate school applications sink. It was true in 2008. As our loyal readers know, we’ve got a crystal ball here at Ivy Coach. Our crystal ball, as crazy as it may …