Ivy League

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• 'Admission' is a screen test for Tina Fey

  to self-realization and romance, Portia Nathan (Fey) proceeds to bend over backward to help Jeremiah (Nate Wolff) join the Ivy League , along the way violating everything she stands for. Which would be absolutely nothing like the maverick Fey appearing in   Read more »

• Andrew Quinn dead, Cornell University graduate stuck by hit-run driver in NYC

  22-year-old Ivy League graduate is dead after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Manhattan's West Side Highway, cops said.Andrew Quinn was hit by a southbound car at around 3 a.m. Saturday. He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital .Police   Read more »

Around the web

• A Cornell Lacrosse Star Who Returned for a Ring

  He took classes in strategic pricing and strategic thinking. He also took the fall semester off, so as to comply with Ivy League rules, which prohibit the participation of graduate students in sports. In similar instances, players simply transferred from Princeton 2:54 PM from The New York Times Read more »

• Where America's Top CEOs Went to School

  is one of at least 61 top CEOs who did not get an MBA, according to a U.S. News analysis. Those who did mostly preferred Ivy League schools: Seven graduated from Harvard University, four graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, two got diplomas from 9:11 AM from U.S. News & World Report Read more »

• SPORTS: Baseball, softball players receive all-Ivy awards

  baseball and softball teams both netted postseason awards for impressive individual performances. Both teams lost in Ivy League championship series in the first weekend of May, with the softball team (26-20, 15-5 Ivy) falling 2-1 to the University of Pennsylvania 2:02 AM from The Dartmouth Read more »

• Glimpses of Poverty Lead Administrator to Education

  N.J. The students there were only four years younger than he was, but they'd had little of the good fortune that had opened Ivy League doors for him. He saw another version of that gap when his undergraduate work led him to teach 3rd graders in the state's   from Education Week Read more »

• Making "just a teacher" obsolete

  Sharon Liao's great op-ed in last Saturday's WaPo offers an honest view of what the teaching profession looks like from an Ivy League perch. And she couldn't be more right. Top students from the Ivies and other selective institutions graduate each year and   from National Council on Teacher Quality Read more »