I've also worked at a school that looked great on paper but wasn't doing nearly as much for its students as it should have.
Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton's president, said the trustees decided to expand the student body in 2001, after the endowment had undergone a few years of "extraordinary growth," because they felt "that a university that had as many resources as we did should educate as many students as it could without losing its character".
Beginning this year, Yale will provide the same financial aid to foreign students as it does to American and Canadian applicants, including them in its need-blind admissions program.
Despite its proximity, Storke Ranch was unfamiliar to most undergraduate students, as it was a new development at the time of the study and did not generally rent to undergraduates.
Britain ranks fourth, but it sends only half as many Erasmus students as it receives.
One advanced biology class at City now has twice as many students as it did in the late 1990s.
The slogan for our school-bus workers, "driving up standards", refers as much to safety for students as it does to employee conditions.
Japan hosts over four times as many students as it sends abroad, and in South Africa 12 students enter the country for every one that goes overseas.
The standard should be grammatical, literate English at the door -- mandatory for both faculty and students, as it was for generations of previous immigrants.
All of this is good news for students, as it is becoming significantly easier to get a place at their preferred university.
China now has 11 times as many college students as it did at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in the spring of 1989, and an economy that has been very slow to produce white-collar jobs.
