Cornell University Dartmouth College Harvard University University of Pennsylvania Princeton University Yale University What makes the Ivy League so special? Over the years, the Ivy League came to describe these schools beyond their athletic conference, and today it speaks to the schools' reput...
Gonzaga Universityin Washington was one such college torelease a statementin 2018 promising not to penalize protesters in the wake of school walkouts protesting gun violence. Later, marches around issues such as immigration policy and racial justice prompted the college to keep the statement up, a...
It makes little difference how many university degrees or courses a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. --Norman Cousins, Editor and Writer (1915-1990) Cousins in 1951 on Ninoshima Island (Chugoku Shimbun)...
Even if it makes sense in some cases to speak of patterned trajectories toward determine points, both CLUSTER POINT and EQUILIBRIUM POINT implicate distinct kinds of statistical tendencies – tendencies of populations to end up with certain kinds of frequency distributions. As I show below, because ...
CLEP also makes accommodations for people with disabilities. What If I Fail a CLEP Exam? Test scores are delivered immediately after completion of the exam. Those who fail a CLEP test must wait 90 days before they can take that same CLEP exam again. This should be something people consider...
things that makes MIT special is the fact that it is meritocratic to its cultural core.*In fact, I think if we tried to move towards legacy admissions we might face an alumni revolt. There is only one way into (and out of) MIT, and that's the hard way. The people here value that...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
What makes it possible for all this to happen so fast is that, unlike traditional AI, which has been quietly automating and adding value to commercial processes for decades, generative AI exploded into the world’s consciousness thanks to ChatGPT’s human-like conversational talent. That has als...
Veronica Hauad, the deputy dean of admissions and deputy director for access, affordability and inclusion at the University of Chicago in Illinois, says that these students commonly lack what experts call "social-cultural capital." "If you're first gen, your parents haven't gone to coll...
Veronica Hauad, the deputy dean of admissions and deputy director for access, affordability and inclusion at the University of Chicago in Illinois, says that these students commonly lack what experts call "social-cultural capital." "If you're first gen, your parents haven't gone to college...