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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Local Colleges: How Hard Is It to Get in?

Find out what your chances are of getting accepted at your favorite college or university in the Delaware Valley.

  With more than 50 colleges and universities in and around the city, Philadelphia is one of the largest college towns in the nation.  Each year, these colleges and universities receive more applications for admission than they have places available.  Below are the acceptance rates for many of the institutions of higher education in the Delaware Valley.  Ardmore/ Bryn Mawr/ Haverford St. Joseph's University Bryn Mawr College Rosemont College Harcum College  Haverford College Radnor Villanova University Cabrini College Eastern University Delaware County Delaware County Community College Neumann University Penn State Brandywine Campus Pennsylvania College of Technology Swarthmore College Widener University Chester County Immaculata …

Judy Martinez

8:45 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013

I agree - why would these two colleges be left out? It's 2013!   more ›

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Special Week Highlights Harriton Senior's Football Past, Future

Rams' star tight end Ryan Kelly committed to Penn and will be a Maxwell Club award winner.

There can't be many people Harriton senior Ryan Kelly would want to trade places with this week. On Thursday, he’s going to be honored by the Maxwell Football Club as one of the top high school football players in Pennsylvania. And to kick off this week, Kelly made a life-changing choice. Harriton’s All-Central League first-team 6-foot-4-inch, 215-pound tight end made a commitment to the University of Pennsylvania to play football. Since Ivy League schools don’t allow sports scholarships, Kelly will attend Penn on a grant-in-aid package based on need. Kelly chose Penn over a number of Ivy League schools like Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell. Kelly also considered Lehigh, Davidson, Bucknell, Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon. Kelly …

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