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...least trilingual," she said. One of the reputedly best schools in the city requires its three-year-old applicants to take a Stanford-Binet intelligence test. Since the school is also free, there's a lot of competition to get in. Only children who score in the 98th or 99th percentile are considered. We duly sent our son, Rover (not his real name; we're not that mean), for the $150 test, figuring he might, on a very good day, fluke it. Turns out he was in the 40th percentile. According to the literature accompanying the results, this meant...
...which in turn are based on individual, normative assessments of what constitutes deprivation. One such expert told the HCECP that a basic budget for a 4-person Boston family was $51,000 a year, an income greater than that of the median American family and well into the 99th percentile for the world’s population...
Better still was Stewart's performance just one week earlier, when the Crimson went to overtime against then-unbeaten Princeton. In the 99th minute of the game, Stewart collected a rebound in front of the net and fired home a shot that gave Harvard the win and kept its Ivy title hopes alive...
...This strange, small world is special, and Harvard students' talents and expectations are, like so many of our test scores, in the 99th percentile. Who knows what we, the Class of 2000, will accomplish? Do we have another President in our midst? Another Bill Gates, Class of 1977? Another Cornel West '74? Another Unabomber...
...takes a certain sort of grace to endure a never-ending parade of humiliations and if anyone has exhibited that grace, the fine folks of Yale certainly have. Thank you Yale, for demonstrating to the world the difference between the 98th and 99th percentile on standardized tests, and for proudly carrying the banner of inferiority all these years. Good luck tomorrow--there's no question you'll need...