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...ADAM OBLEY Topeka, Kans...
...Adam Capulong, 17, who sports the collared shirt and tie required for boys at this racially diverse urban magnet school, adores the class. "It brings all aspects of math together," says the straight-A student, who is hoping to go to Harvard. But the challenging college-level course is just one small serving on an academic plate that he has heaped with five additional AP courses, including AP French, AP English Literature and AP Art History. That's on top of the three AP courses he took as a junior and one as a sophomore. Capulong's fellow senior Nayla...
...This is not a case of whoever has the most APs wins," insists Stanford director of undergraduate admissions Anna Marie Porras. But as kids like Adam Capulong and Nayla Scaramello know, it certainly doesn't hurt. This fall 424 students at McNair Academic signed up for AP courses. That's three-quarters of the student body...
...believed her race and gender "ruffled a lot of feathers in the Corps Command and also contributed to the disparate and highly critical treatment she has received." Asked for comment, a Corps spokesman told TIME, "Army policy is to treat all employees fairly and with dignity and respect." --By Adam Zagorin and Timothy J. Burger
...Staff writer Adam P. Schneider can be reached at aschneid@fas.harvard.edu...