Ivy round-up: for the class of 2014, April 1 was no joke

So admission rates came out on this week around April 1 (like they always do) for the Ivies, and yet again Columbia seems to be leading the middle of the Ivy pack at 9.16 percent for CC and SEAS combined, with Princeton Harvard, and Yale posting lower admit rates and the rest posting higher ones. Some things never change, but of course there's plenty of new news 'round the league.

In what most of Princeton presumably hopes is a big April Fools' joke, a first-year at Princeton sues the school for more time to finish exams. If only it were that easy, kid. [Daily Princetonian]

Again on April 1, Penn's entire senior class hits "Reply All" on a senior class-wide email thread. [Under the Button]

Ferran Adrià is closing El Bulli, which some have considered the best restaurant in the world, to teach a course in "culinary physics" at Harvard. [Washington Post]

The Ivy League apparently peaked fashion-wise around 1965. Hippies these Ivy Leaguers were not. [Bows + Arrows via IvyGate]

Another point of comparison among the Ivies this week: Truman Scholarships, which were announced last Tuesday. The results?

Penn: 2
Harvard, Brown, Yale, Cornell: 1
Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth: 0

That makes for the second straight year without a Truman winner. Sigh... [Truman Scholarship Foundation]