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2. Yale University - Wikipedia

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   History Early history of Yale College Origins Yale traces its beginnings to "An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School", a would-be charter passed in New Haven by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701. The Act was an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership. Soon after, a group of ten Congregational ministers, Samuel Andrew, Thomas ...

3. Phillips Academy - Wikipedia

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   Elite universities such as Yale and Princeton tended to accept disproportionate percentages of prep school students while using quotas to deny admission to minority applicants. An account in Time in 1931 described the two academies as having "flourished", and that both were "twin giants of prep schools in size and in prestige". [157]

4. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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   Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. It is most controversial in college admissions, [3] where students so admitted are referred to as legacies or legacy students.

5. Yale to resume requiring standardized test scores for applicants

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   Columbia University in New York City, however, said in March that it would not require applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores. It is believed to be the first Ivy League school to adopt the policy ...

6. Hotchkiss School - Wikipedia

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   The Hotchkiss School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Founded in 1891, it was one of the first English-style boarding schools in the United States [16] [17] and an early proponent of student financial aid, having accepted scholarship students since its inception. [18]

7. List of land-grant universities - Wikipedia

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   Alabama. Alabama A&M University. Auburn University (designated as a land-grant college in 1872 under the name Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama) Tuskegee University (private) Though Alabama A&M is Alabama's official 1890 Morrill Act institution, the mission and unique history of Tuskegee are so similar to those of the 1890 ...