Word: 99th
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...still required by over 80 percent of colleges throughout the nation. And Harvard is no exception; in fact, an extremely high SAT score is practically a necessity for admittance to Harvard—the average score of accepted students is around 1490, a score in the 99th percentile. But as the SAT I gets a facelift—the newest version will be released in 2005—it’s time that the college admissions world reevaluate its use of the test and scrap it altogether...
...dying sod of Harvard Stadium, an MIT-planted prank stole the show and avenged years of on-field football absence at the 99th playing of The Game...
Losing a parent is hellish in any instance. Hilary had the added horror of seeing hers vanish, suddenly and surreally, on TV. That morning her father George called home twice from his office at the insurance broker Aon on the 99th floor of the south tower--once calmly, the second time choking on tears--to assure her mother Ginny that he was O.K. and was being evacuated. Several hours later, Hilary, watching TV along with the rest of her sixth-grade class, saw one of the endless replays of her father's office building collapsing in a heap...
...than any recent Ivy champion. This bodes well that its seeding will match or beat the 2000 Dartmouth team, which had the nation’s 68th-best RPI and earned a 13th seed—the highest ever for an Ivy team. The 2001 Penn team had the 99th-best RPI and earned a 15th seed...
...next night against Princeton. Harvard was successful in hedging off screens and staying with their assignments in the first half. But when Tigers Coach John Thompson III put four shooters on the floor all at once in the second half, it created room for Mike Bechtold to nail the 99th, 100th and 101st three-pointers of his career in rapid succession to open up a lead...