Harvard will now waive tuition, room and board for students whose families earn less than $60,000 a year according to this story in the Crimson. ... A piece in the Yale Daily cites an all-time low 5.8 percent acceptance rate this spring in New Haven. The story quotes these rates at other schools that have released their figures (strike>(Dartmouth hasn't yet): Harvard, 9.3 percent; Columbia 9.6 percent; Cornell 24.7 percent. LATE NOTE: Today's Daily Dartmouth has a story saying 15.4 percent of applicants were admitted, but it's not clear if that includes the early admits. If so, comparing Dartmouth's numbers to the others is, as a Dartmouth administrator memorably said to me during an interview, "Like comparing apples and hubcaps."
... A story in Virginia's Daily Press is built around the salutatorian at Hampton's Kecoughtan High School, who very much wants to attend Dartmouth and is on pins and needles waiting to find out if he got in. Therein lies one of the advantages of being a recruited athlete. Although they may not have received the final paperwork yet, recruited athletes already know their fate. ... Look for the next edition of "10 Questions" Monday on the Green Alert home page. ... The temperature in the Upper Valley could hit the mid 70's today. Maybe, just maybe, those last patches of snow in my yard will melt today. Pretty amazing if they are all gone by April Fool's.
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