Dartmouth Women’s Swimming Team
The Dartmouth women’s swimming and diving team is facing disciplinary action from the college after violating the school’s hazing policy. This past December, according to a report from “The Daily Mail,” members of the team made first-year students “organize and display a sexualized PowerPoint presentation while the group was onCategories: College Athletes
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Coach K and Duke
There is no college athletic coach in America who has had a more direct — and enduring — impact on a university’s selectiveness in admissions as Duke University’s Coach K. While many Duke alums will shake their heads when we suggest that Mike Krzyzewski’s stewardship of the men’s basketball team inCategories: College Admissions, College Athletes
Basketball and Application Numbers
We came across a piece up on “Sports Illustrated” about the alma mater of one of our favorite former NBA stars, John Stockton, that touched on college admissions. And so we just had to share it with our readers. John Stockton, the NBA’s all-time leader in both assists and steals,Categories: College Admissions, College Athletes
A Hero of March Madness
Regular readers of our college admissions blog know that we write about March Madness because how deep a team advances in the NCAA Tournament can have a major impact on the university’s application numbers the subsequent admissions cycle. So to all you Northwestern fans, you bet we anticipate a surgeCategories: College Admissions, College Athletes
Highly Selective Colleges in March Madness
Each and every March, we write about college basketball. And why? Because a university’s success in March Madness can have a major impact on the school’s admissions statistics the subsequent admissions cycle. Should a powerhouse basketball program go out in the first round, applications are unlikely to spike the next yearCategories: College Admissions, College Athletes
Athletes at Princeton
And the award for the best college student-written editorial on highly selective college admissions of the year thus far goes to…Beni Snow of Princeton University. In a piece entitled “Princeton Admissions: Recruitment” in “The Daily Princetonian,” the newspaper of Princeton University, Snow makes correct point after correct point that torchesCategories: College Athletes, Ivy League
A Salute to Northwestern Basketball
Every few years, one of our readers asks us why we post quite a few times each March about March Madness. They explain that they’re here to read about college admissions — not college basketball. And so we have to explain that actually, March Madness can — and so often doesCategories: College Admissions, College Athletes
Yale Athletics
There was an editorial yesterday in “The Yale Daily News” that is generating a bit of buzz. The piece was written by Cole Aronson and it’s entitled “Admissions and Athletics.” Aronson begins the piece with a headline grabber: “Yale should stop recruiting athletes. Nothing against sports — except that sports haveCategories: College Admissions, College Athletes, Ivy League
Dartmouth in Super Bowl Spot
We’ve highlighted in the past the remarkable work of Dartmouth College head football coach Buddy Teevens. Not only has he delivered Ivy League championships to Dartmouth as both a player and coach, but he’s quite literally changed the game — not only in Hanover, New Hampshire but across the land. AlongCategories: College Athletes, Ivy League
Princeton Swimming
The Princeton University men’s swimming and diving team’s season has been suspended indefinitely. If the suspension of an Ivy League athletic team sounds a bit familiar, it’s because this is not the first team to have its season suspended this year. In fact, it’s not even the second. Princeton’s men’sCategories: College Athletes, Ivy League
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