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Princeton’s Rival? This Season, Look No Further Than Harvard
Thursday, 10 March 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Classic Ivy League sports debate that no one actually plans on answering: Who is Princeton’s rival? Some Tiger fans cling firmly to the geographical convenience of the supposed Penn-Princeton rivalry. Back in 2006, a columnist from the Daily Pennsylvanian noted that the rival stems almost exclusively from the two schools’ dominance of Ivy League basketball. But
- Published in Sports
Princeton second-best at investing in Ivy League
Friday, 15 October 2010
by Will Saborio
If Goldman Sachs released tables of the best Ivy League universities at making money, Princeton would come second. (This is based on absolutely no analysis of the following figures.) PRINCO, the Princeton University Investment Co., announced annual returns of 14.7 percent for the fiscal year of 2010 today. After last year’s return of -23.5 percent
- Published in Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
Columbia, Endowment, Harvard, investment, Princeton University Investment Co., PRINCO, Yale
In which we issue a correction.
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
by Will Saborio
UPDATE: After some discussion, we decided that our judgments were rather more unsophisticated and flippantly worded than we think desirable. For example: We should probably make it clear that IvyGate doesn’t hate Princeton. And we don’t hate IvyGate. And BLOG WARS!!! are, like, totally lame. I used to really like IvyGate. Now, I won’t go
- Published in Goings On, The INKternet
Looking for an excuse to turn down Yale? Here’s one.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
by Woody Hines
Yale students have always complained about how their financial aid pales in comparison to Princeton and Harvard’s. In late February, they announced a 4.8% increase in tuition, and to compensate, they added a 10% increase in financial aid expenditures and guaranteed parents of students on aid would not receive any hike in the tuition bill.
- Published in Princeton in the News
Admissions 2010: Just the Facts
Thursday, 01 April 2010
by David Walter
Here it is: – 2,148 out of 26,247 admitted for an 8.18% acceptance rate — falling from 9.94% in 2009 and 9.25 in 2008. (Harvard admitted 6.9%, Yale 7.5%) – 50% men, 50% women. – 9.4 percent admitted identify as African American; 21.5 percent as Asian American; 10 percent as Hispanic or Latino; less than
- Published in Princeton in the News
Admissions, Gossip Girl style!
Thursday, 01 April 2010
by Angela Wu
High school seniors: If you don’t get the thick envelope, don’t feel too bad. Princeton is a trade school. …There is only Yale? Take it from Season 2 of Gossip Girl. Fun fact: The teacher out to ruin Blair’s Yale dreams? That’d be senior Laura Breckenridge ’10. Oh, Princetonians! Always trying to deflate everyone else’s
- Published in Goings On
Ivy League NCAA Sports Redux
Friday, 26 March 2010
by Julia Bumke
Cornell may have ended its historic March Madness run last night (read the NYTimes’s take on it here), but the Ivy League still lives strong in the NCAA. Next up: Yale’s hockey team is going up against North Dakota tomorrow afternoon in the Northeast regional semifinals. Yale was ranked No. 9 in the nation after
Why They Chose Yale: The Sex
Friday, 12 February 2010
by Samantha Pergadia
Yale has a few reasons to be ashamed of itself: We routinely beat them at the U.S. News and World Report game. Our application numbers soared this year while they saw 200 fewer suitors. Despite all this, there is one department in which Elis seem to be more…satisfied…than Princetonians. It’s “Sex Week” at Yale, which
- Published in Princeton in the News
This week in “Princeton in the New Yorker”: Tiger Hockey and… Baby Seals?
Monday, 08 February 2010
by David Walter
You’d think the New Yorker would be solidly in the tank for the ol’ Orange and Black. Editor-in-Chief David Remnick ’81 didn’t teach himself, after all. In recent years, however, Yale has been getting most of the love from this classiest of rags (see here and here and here). But as long as the stories
- Published in Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
baby seals, David Remnick, Gary Bass, hockey, I'm a sucker for a good costume drama, John McPhee, musical, Queen Victoria, The New Yorker, Yale
The Emma Watson Effect
Friday, 22 January 2010
by Angela Wu
After only a two percent increase in applications for the Class of 2013, Princeton University has been pushing its hefty financial aid package–and it’s working. The 19 percent jump in applications to Princeton this year was greater than that of Harvard (5 percent) and Yale (Not really a jump, more like a…tiny step backward.), prompting
- Published in Princeton in the News
Tagged under:
admissions, Brown University, class of 2014, competition, Emma Watson, Harvard, Hogwarts, Princeton University, Yale
Yale’s musical? Try Princeton’s 3D period seriocomedy
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
by Will Saborio
If you haven’t heard of it already, Yale’s Admissions Office recently released a new video called “Why I Chose Yale.” Here it is. Insane, right? Some blogs have called it “Why I Didn’t Choose Yale,” others are scratching their heads as to why this was created, and, naturally, Yalies are up in arms about it
- Published in Musings, Princeton in the News
Tigers and Bulldogs and…John Harvard? Oh My?
Thursday, 07 January 2010
by Julia Bumke
As we slog on through the sheer hellishness that is reading period, complete with the perfunctory stupidity from old friends at home (“Why do you have your exams now? That’s just so…weird!”), I took comfort in getting an email from my dad today asking whether I thought he should interview prospective Harvard kids. Yep, folks:
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