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Regrets aside, Harvard can salvage some confidence from its victories going into a tough weekend of action at Vanderbilt, ranked No. 8 by USA Today and No. 11 by the AP. Harvard will likely play Vanderbilt at 3 p.m. on Sunday if it can beat Central Michigan on Saturday...
...chances of acceptance, it is not necessarily enough to overcome their reservations about applying. High school guidance counselors and Harvard’s elitist reputation often discourage low-income students from applying because they may have weaker high school preparation or lower standardized test scores such as those on AP exams or the SATs, which are often correlated with family income. Students may well be standouts at Harvard despite those scores, and to its credit, the admissions office insists that it is sensitive to this fact. Instead of focusing on a need-blind selection process, the admissions office should emphasize...
Many Chemistry 15 students, including Luke A. Wilson ’06, who took AP Chemistry in high school, say the new course does not overlap with the Advanced Placement curriculum...
...excited to be learning new material,” he writes in an e-mail. “In the old Chem 10, much of the material was somewhat familiar to many of the students, whereas now they are building on their prior knowledge instead of reviewing their AP Chem course in whirlwind fashion...
...billion in annual premium income, are correspondingly huge. Yet the insurers' financial crisis is partly self-inflicted, and raises serious questions about the security of an industry whose very job is to manage and mitigate risk. How did insurers get into this mess? Holger Dock, the chief executive of AP Pension, a small Danish insurer with 47,000 clients, has a typical explanation: his company's problems stem from the high life insurance payouts that consumers were guaranteed twenty years ago. Back then, interest rates were in double digits and a Danish life policy carried a 4.5% after-tax rate...