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Friday, July 5, 2019
Vol. 7, No. 27
GUIDE TO SOIL GAS TO BE SUOZZI, RICE BACK SUMMER REMOVED ON JANE ST. IMMIGRATION BILL PAGES 29-60
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Ivy admission rates soar at Roslyn High
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More than double Harvard, Princeton, Cornell general acceptance rates BY T E R I W EST Roslyn High School student acceptance rates equaled or exceeded the average for every Ivy League university this year, in some cases more than doubling the higher institution’s rate, Greg Wasserman, the school’s director of guidance, said. Roslyn acceptance rates at Cornell University, Princeton University and Harvard University were all more than double the universities’ acceptance rates. Of Roslyn students who applied to Cornell University 29 percent were accepted this year, while the university’s admission rate is only 10 percent. A solid 13 percent of Roslyn applicants made it into Harvard while only 5 percent of all applicants did, and 11 percent of Roslyn applicants were admitted to Princeton University, which only accepts 5 percent of those who apply.
Roslyn’s acceptance rates at Columbia and Brown University were both 1 percentage point above the national rate and at Dartmouth University the rate was 6 percentage points higher. Yale was the only Ivy League university where Roslyn’s acceptance rate did not exceed the university’s — both were 6 percent. “These are remarkable, when you compare the general acceptance rate to the Roslyn acceptance rate for every one of these,” Board of Education Vice President Clifford Saffron said at last Thursday’s meeting, where Wasserman presented the data. These statistics come at a time when most of the Ivy League school acceptance rates are decreasing as the number of total applicants reaches unprecedented highs, Wasserman said. The University of PennsylvaContinued on Page 75
PHOTO COURTESY OF HERRICKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Herricks High School grads accepted diplomas from Board of Education members before shaking hands with Superintendent Fino Celano and Principal Joan Keegan. See story on page 6.
F. Hill resident submits anti-cell nodes memo BY J ES S I C A PA R K S
day’s Board of Trustees meeting. Michael and Lynn KoufaA Flower Hill resident sub- kis recently paid $30,000 for mitted a memorandum oppos- the relocation of a PSEG utiling one of the 18 cell nodes ity pole from their property to proposed in the village at Mon- improve the aesthetics. Shortly
after, village applications for cell nodes were submitted that proposed constructing a pole in the newly vacant spot, according to attorney Andrew Campanelli of Merrick. Continued on Page 75
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