
David Wignall • March 21, 2025
The College offered admission to 1,038 applicants on March 21 through the regular decision process. The total acceptance rate for the 2024-2025 admission cycle, including both early and regular decision, was 8.5 percent — a slight increase from last year’s record-low 7.5 percent acceptance rate.
Hugh Kane • March 19, 2025
Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, will deliver the 2025 commencement address on June 8. The day before, Esther Duflo, a Nobel laureate and MIT professor of economics will deliver the College’s baccalaureate address.
Aiden Clarke • March 19, 2025
The College launched the CARE Team, a committee that directs students identified through referrals as needing additional support to available campus resources, this academic year.
Deep in the College's archives, thousands of hours of footage and other artifacts immortalize the sermons and declarations of Osama bin Laden, as well as records of Afghanistan in the 1980s and '90s. Professor of Anthropology David Edwards, along with four Afghan journalists from Pakistan, worked tirelessly to archive these vestiges of the past.

The College’s EphVentures programs have seen a decrease in applications for orientation leader positions, according to their student directors. The programs faced a 15 percent budget cut and were shortened by a day in 2023, which leaders said diminished their ability to run the programs effectively.

Ben Niewoehner • March 19, 2025
Sophia Verkleeren ’25, with 20 NESCAC titles and four NCAA wins, is set to conclude her college swimming career at the NCAA Championships.

Dalia Levanon • March 19, 2025
This week in history, the Record covered an 11-hour power outage, Senator Joseph McCarthy accused a professor at the College of communism, and Dining Services had a giveaway for goldfish.
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In an op-ed, professors Rohit Bhattacharya and Phoebe Cohen explain how cuts to federal research funding will have devastating consequences beyond academic circles.
Bryan DiFebo-Byrne • March 19, 2025
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Tahlia Gerger • March 19, 2025
'Pastoral on Paper,' which opened last week at the Clark Art Institute, was curated by William Satloff Grad Art '25.