Word: alumnus
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...ride back to Johnston Gate, I tried to make sense of what I had just experienced. So this was how it felt to be an influential alumnus of Harvard College, to rub elbows with a Winthrop, a Chase, a titan of industry or a baron of the financial world. Soon I would be entering their world and their value system; the thought made me feel uncomfortable for a moment. It was a feeling similar to the one I had when the driver couldn't let the Quad students on the bus and out of the rain...
...optimistic alumnus might say that nobody expected Harvard to thrash Yale. 8-1. And, he might go on, if that was difficult, beating Princeton is "impossible." Maybe it will take a little longer than the one hour and 38 minutes Harvard took to put away the Elis...
...remember, that's an optimistic alumnus...
...name, a long string of numbers and cryptic abbreviations shows college board scores, class rank, grade-point average and a preliminary rating for academic promise and personal quality on a scale of 1 to 6. Other symbols reveal more: "LEG 1" is a legacy, the son of a Brown alumnus. "M1" is a black; "M8" a Chicano. "50" means the Brown football coach is interested, "70" that Brown's development office has marked the candidate's parents as potential benefactors...
...character. On the printed recommendation form, the low checks stick out from the high ones like a long, thin nose. "A rating of average usually means the guidance counselor thinks there is something seriously wrong," explains Admissions Officer Paulo de Oliveira. Mary's interview with a Brown alumnus was also lukewarm, and worse, she has written a "jock essay," i.e., a very short one. Rogers scrawls a Z, the code for rejection, on her folder...