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April 3, 2008
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Admissions selectivity on the rise, lower yield expected
Once again this year, Swarthmore’s admissions acceptance rate has dropped to an all-time low. The college received 6,118 applications this year for the class of 2012 and admitted only 15 percent, a two percent decrease from last year’s acceptance rate of 17 percent.
According to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jim Bock ’90, many reasons account for the increased number of applicants this year. The number of seniors applying to college each year in America continues to increase.
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News
- Highly attended talk by conservative 'modesty' author Wendy Shalit draws big crowds and even bigger questions
- Event series on Islam begins
- Luce scholarship for Asian study awarded to two students
- 3rd annual Tri-Co Peace Week to include panel on Iran-US relations, benefit concert by State Radio, and MLK Jr.
- Gaw named head of anti-genocide STAND
- Sawyer, Stoller take highest award at Skidmore debate tournament; Mahomva, Felizardo win second for novice
- Spirited mascot contest ends with 'phoenix' debut
- New publications vie for student interest, funding
- Delay in annual animal research report, still in compliance with AWA guidelines
- Man ban at Harvard gym
Living & Arts
- cartoon
- Exploring Africa
- Mouth water for fans of Animal Collective
- Blitzen Trapper
- Horton hears a success
- No shame in drag in the post-feminist era
- Le's comeback recital
- Chalkings of a majority
- Food for thought: Sharples etiquette 101, continued
- Yoga symposium calls together practitioners, flexes body and mind
- Spike at the mike
- Students document a Screw to remember
- Miao tells the 'Truth' about exiled Chinese journalist
- Editor's picks
Opinions
- Israel and Palestine
- Op-art
- Boycott Olympics over Darfur
- Young black academic elite have lost touch with reality
- U.S. athletes not martyrs
- U.S. and China need more dialogue
- Homophobia at Genderfuck Party
- Sager loses sight of symposium
- Unwelcome education
Sports
- Men's track team comes out strong
- Women's track team impresses in spring opener
- Women's lacrosse drops two against tough opponents
- Softball plays busy stretch
- Robotic Referees?
- Baseball blasts Washington, falls to Hopkins
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