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“A college education unfits rather than fits men to affairs.” –Andrew Carnegie, 1901 Over one hundred years ago, one of the richest and most successful men in America, Andrew Carnegie, thought that college was not only unnecessary...

Release Date: April 23, 2015 In 2014, Stephanie Lee, a Reporter Corps participant, wrote about the complexities of applying for financial-aid as the child of an immigrant family. We recently caught up with Stephanie, who says that she started working...

New York City June 21, 2016 6:30–8:30 p.m. Below you will find the profiles of students that who will be summer interns in Washington, DC, as well as for alumnae that have registered for the evening networking reception. Stickers and name tags will...

Last December, when Amal Abdi found out she’d gotten into Yale University early with a full scholarship, the first thing she did was call her parents, who had fled war-torn Somalia in the 1990s to start a new life in Columbus, Ohio. The next thing she...

Teenagers make bad choices. Honestly, who doesn’t? For adolescents, however, who are armed with new responsibilities, opportunities, and bodies they are almost inevitably unprepared to deal with, the wrong decision can have serious, life-altering effects...