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...Harvard’s belief is, if you do well at a poor school, we just won’t admit it. We still write you off,” he says. “[They think,] ‘These kids aren’t going to succeed at Harvard. They’re just not. So why admit them, get their hopes up? They’re just going to fail out.’ Their belief is, ‘Let these students go elsewhere—some state school or community college—and then...
...Harvard were to move its Pell percentages up to, say, those of Amherst College it would have to admit fully 649 more low-income students...
Presented with all these possibilities, Fitzsimmons warns caution. As for a Columbia-style program, he says, “It’s very hard to know whether if we were to do something like that, whether we would be able to admit the students. It’s very hard for everybody to get in here...
...Most Israelis will admit today without hesitation, ‘Of course the Palestinians have a right to a state,’” Halevi said. “Just as we had reluctantly come to the conclusion that they had a case, we assumed that they came to the conclusion that we had a legitimate cause. I can tell you categorically that it is not true...
Belichick’s a great coach, just like Brenda’s a great writer. But sometimes, you’ve just got to admit that there’s someone out there a little better. Belichick doesn’t quite match up to his counterpart, just like Brenda doesn’t quite match up to…well, you get the idea...