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Three decades ago, two liberal arts colleges — Bates College and Bowdoin College — zigged where so many others had zagged, becoming essentially the only major colleges to not require SAT or ACT scores from potential applicants. On their backs, a Boston-based organization called FairTest began advocating in 1985 for de-emphasizing test scores in American […]
As Harvard, Notre Dame, Georgetown and others pledge to increase diversity, admitting the children of alumni at higher rates complicates their efforts.
Reuters Some Chinese universities are restricting the admission of North Korean students and even blacklisting their scholarship applications as the nuclear weapons crisis escalates on the Korean peninsula, according to several college enrollment officers. One recruitment official at a university in Beijing said his college was cutting back on North Korean student numbers, especially those […]
A map produced by NHS Digital has revealed in 2016 to 2017 there were 207,797 unique patients aged 65 and over admitted to hospital in an emergency with a diagnosis of dementia. In England, the rate of emergency hospital admissions for patients aged over the age of 65 with a diagnosis of dementia is 492 […]
DEMENTIA is a growing health issue in England and dementia and Alzheimer’s have been named as the leading cause of death among women in the UK. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer to obtain information on Hillary Clinton. The development raises new questions about the extent to which Trump campaign officials interacted with Russian officials. Experts say the new revelations bring up a key question: Why Did Trump Jr. turn to a Russian national for potentially damaging […]
There were more hospital admissions in Canada last year for alcohol-related conditions than for heart attacks. CBC | Health News
In his personal statement, Private College Applicant No. 3654 describes the summer after his sophomore year, when he went to Cambodia (or Kenya, or Nicaragua) to volunteer at an orphanage (or a clinic or school). The experience opened his eyes, he writes, to the suffering of others. He realized that poor people can be happy […]
PH LONG before we discovered he had fathered two children by two different women… THE HEART’S INVISIBLE FURIES by John Boyne Doubleday, £16.99 LONG before we discovered he had fathered two children by two different women… Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church Of Our Lady in the parish of Goleen, West […]
