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Millennium — the biggest hedge fund employer and one of the biggest backers of new funds — is increasingly in a category of its own. Loading audio narration… The manager, founded and still run by Izzy Englander, invests more than $84 billion across hundreds of investing teams.The firm’s planned absorption of…
This year’s Ivy Day was brutal, and the admissions numbers prove it. Loading audio narration… Yale admitted a record-low 2.9% of regular decision applicants from a pool of nearly 55,000 students, the second-largest in the school’s history.Columbia received 61,031 applications — the largest pool in its history — and admitted…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Smaiyl Makyshov, 24, the founder of Multifaceted Capital, a VC firm based in San Francisco. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… I started programming when I was nine years old, teaching myself languages like HTML and…
“I’m glad my daughter was rejected from an Ivy League college,” I told a friend recently.Her daughter is a high school junior, currently in the thick of curating a list of reach schools. My friend was surprised by my words. I know I’m supposed to want the best college for…
One of the biggest misconceptions about how to get into a top college is that students need to take as many Advanced Placement (AP) classes as possible in high school.I’m a college admissions expert, and when families write me five-figure checks for college preparation, they expect me to tell their…
