You're not imagining it — it feels damn near impossible to get into top colleges right now

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A Yale professor is slamming Bill Ackman's campaign against Harvard, calling the billionaire investor an 'odious' oligarch

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"Bill Ackman is a pernicious influence on American education. He thinks his money equals wisdom and even if it doesn't, he thinks it gives him the right to bully at will," Yale public health professor Gregg Gonsalves wrote on X.

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Yale's grade inflation is a good thing, actually. It makes college less stressful and makes our interest in classes more authentic.

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Grade inflation is apparent at Yale.

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I'm a freshman at Yale University's Old Campus. Here's what my dorm room life is like.

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Yale freshmen live on Old Campus.

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I'm a student at Yale University. Here's what a weekend is like on campus.

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The author and a building on the Yale campus.

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I'm a freshman at Yale and just went to my first Harvard-Yale football game. The weekend was one of my favorites at college so far.

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The author and his friends at the Yale-Harvard football game.

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I worry I got into Yale only because I'm Black. I now do everything I can to prove I belong.

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Yale is citing freedom of speech amid student anger after a professor called Israel a 'murderous genocidal settler state'

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A Yale professor is facing calls for her ouster after calling Israel a "murderous genocidal settler state."

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Tensions are boiling over as America's elite colleges respond to Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel

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A Jewish counter protestor shouts at students from Brooklyn College during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the entrance of the campus.

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A college counselor said a parent offered him $1.5 million to deny service to their child's classmates — highlighting the cut-throat battle for Ivy League admissions

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Harvard University, which ranks No. 3 in US News' latest rankings, accepted less than 4% of applicants for class of 2027.

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