June 23, 2022 Having served as the Dean of Admission at Princeton University from 1978 to 1983, I learned enough about the admission policies and practices of a selective institution
May 6, 2022 In college counseling, May 1 is sacred and represents the culmination of a four-year journey for students who began their freshman year of high school and are
Ozymandias There is a fast-developing problem for independent schools. It is more systemic than alleged racism and more disruptive than pandemic-induced protocols. Independent schools are becoming ungovernable. A 1970’s Management
The Extrinsic In Part 1 of this series, we focused on how the 50-year NAIS governance experiment around mission failed to build constituency alignment. The resulting landscape is one of
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, we learned that the acceptance rates at the Ivy League universities were the lowest on record. Specifically, Harvard accepted 3.4%, Columbia
Having recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal about the declining percentage of applicants to highly selective colleges being offered admission, I decided to go public with an