Urban Prep Academy in Chicago, a charter school that has received quite a bit of media attention the last couple of years (including features on CNN and “World News with Diane Sawyer,”) made an announcement recently that two of its graduates are Ivy League admits for the Class of 2015. …
A teacher in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Levy, wrote an interesting editorial today in the “Huffington Post” based on his experiences teaching in China and the United States. He describes how at this time of year at his high school in New York, students come in wearing all of these …
It’s no surprise that transferring to an Ivy League university or other highly selective college is a most difficult feat. At many of these universities, the acceptance rate for transfer applicants is considerably lower than the acceptance rate for its regular applicant pool of high school students applying as freshman. …
There is an article in today’s “NY Daily News” that tells the college admissions story of a senior at the Bronx High School of Science. The senior, Noam Shapiro, was accepted to six Ivy League colleges, as well as Duke, Wesleyan, Northwestern, and SUNY Binghamton. It must have been a …
There’s a “CNN” article today that lists eight highly successful Harvard dropouts – no, not Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates. We suppose the founders of Facebook and Microsoft have become too ubiquitous with the term Harvard dropout that “CNN” wanted to explore some less well known ones. So who tops …
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell (author of “Blink,” “The Tipping Point,” “Outliers,” “What The Dog Saw,” and a host of articles in “The New Yorker”) has some very interesting things to say about college rankings. We at Ivy Coach don’t happen to agree with a lot of the things that he …
There was a cool article in “The Stanford Daily” by Jordan Carr that broke down the eight categories of admitted students to Stanford University. While the piece is intended as humorous, Jordan’s breakdown isn’t exactly a stretch of the truth. In fact, it’s probably quite accurate and that’s why it’s …
It may come as a surprise that Sydney Johnson, head coach of the men’s basketball team at Princeton University, has left Princeton to take the post of head coach of men’s basketball at Fairfield University. Why would Johnson leave his alma mater, a university he led to a share of …
This year, 14% of admitted students to Brown University hail from outside of the United States. According to “The Brown Daily Herald,” topping the list of countries from which its admitted students reside are China (57), India (34), and the United Kingdom (33). Said Brown University Dean of Admission Jon …
Yale University is partnering with the National University of Singapore to create a college in Singapore, the first school for Yale that is not located at its New Haven, Connecticut campus. Yale’s venture into Singapore is in line with the trend of American universities to broaden their global outreach by …
