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Did you forget? April 26th was grade deflation policy’s birthday! Yes, it’s five years-old already! Parents Malkiel and Tilghman are so proud. Just look at the results!:
Average GPAs:
(source: gradeinflation.com)
Princeton University Prez
Name: Shirley Tilghman
Occupation on Campus: President
Major: Molecular Biology
Hometown: Princeton
Who’s your favorite Princetonian, living or dead, real or fictional?
My daughter Becca ‘03
What is your greatest guilty pleasure?
Ice cream.
What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in Princeton?
Any meal cooked by Sally Lewis Lamonica, the chef at Lowrie House
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day?
I work to ensure that in the future, including tomorrow, Princeton University is fulfilling to the greatest extent possible its potential to transform the lives of its students, and discover new knowledge.
Best place on campus?
Icahn Lab
Worst place on campus?
My daughter’s former dorm room in Wilson College
Princeton University president Shirley Tilghman appeared on the Charlie Rose show last night.
Shirley discussed the Bush administration’s political repression of science, bragged about Alex Barnard and his “mohawk up to here” and used the word “periodicity” when discussing how often the University rejects the idea of a Princeton Medical School (every 20 years or so). Charlie was much impressed.
See the video after the jump.
Bad News Bears...
Has the population of “green haired” high school students plateaued? Shirley Tilghman’s now-infamous desire to attract students with a penchant for hairdye may be backfiring!
Princeton has suffered a second major blow to its ego in less than six months! In August, the university dropped down an entire spot to number two in the annual US News & World Report rankings, and two weeks ago, Janet Rapelye’s admissions office announced that this year’s applicant pool for the class of 2013 grew just two percent.
This figure, so far, represents the smallest growth in applications among its peer schools (Columbia and Penn have yet to release their data). As the table above shows, Brown saw a whopping 21 percent increase in applicants this year, and even Cornell reported a higher increase with three percent.
After the jump, the second table shows that Princeton’s application numbers haven’t grown as quickly over the past three years, compared to Harvard’s and Yale’s:
