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...Scholastic Aptitude Test scores after the first round search based on Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test. Probably as a result of this search, the Black applicant pool this year grew to 845 compared to 690 last year. After the acceptance letters were mailed out, undergraduate volunteers called minority admits to allay fears and answer questions...
Harvard's efforts to allay these fears and fight its image problem, however, may not be adequate. Although it has increased its recruitment activities considerably by sending letters and brochures to students with qualifying SAT or PSAT scores, the intensity falters in the follow-through...
...deadlocked on Powell and acquitted the other three of assault charges just under a year ago. Those actions aroused an angry belief that white policemen could treat blacks as brutally as they pleased and escape punishment -- an outrage that last week's verdicts have begun at least partly to allay...
Miller's presentation is meant to destroy myths about the College and to allay fears of rigid formulas and Staggering odds...
Despite the initial skepticism of educators, McDonald's programs have managed to allay the fears of many that work and school could not mix. In February the National Association of Secondary School Principals passed a resolution commending the company for "exemplary and motivational efforts to support education, students and assistant principals...