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Article: Inside the Ivy League: an exclusive survey of the nation's best and brightest. (survey of college students)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 12, 1993
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An exclusive survey of the nation's best and brightest
The Ivy League. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania. The prestigious schools, in author David Halberstam's 1960s phrase, of "the best and the brightest."
Like most of the nation's colleges and universities, the Ivy League schools are mailing their admissions letters this month, and the majority of applicants to these eight Eastern institutions are going to be disappointed. Ivy schools admit on average only a fourth of their applicants; then they charge an average of $22,700 a year in tuition, room and board. There are other outstanding ...