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...admissions officers try to use other test scores to gauge academic accomplishment, such as Advanced Placement (AP) tests. But Fitzsimmons acknowledges that even AP tests and other tests are all correlated with a person's socioeconomic status. Poorer schools may not have the resources to offer AP classes...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Gives you an Edge? Meritocracy's Last Stand | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

Sources: Plain Dealer, Encyclopedia Americana (phone); Detroit News, Times-Picayune (lottery); AP (coaster), Houston Chronicle (India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 22, 2000 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Sources: New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, AP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: May 8, 2000 | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...both sides had the picture they wanted. An intrepid AP photographer captured a federal agent holding a submachine gun as the fisherman held the terrified child. Within hours came the counterrevolution, the image of a grateful father holding his smiling son. In the end, what you made of the passion play depended on which picture stayed with you longer, and whose version of the story had the ring of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...seemed just as likely, however, that Weiss was on her way to an elite university. During her junior year, she managed to squeeze in four AP classes before her seven-hour jaunt into Manhattan for ballet rehearsal. Upon graduation, she was accepted by both Harvard and Yale, and chose to defer Yale's offer for one year...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Dance, Little Lady: Harvard's ballerinas express themselves | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

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