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From that moment of first exposure, she was pretty much Africa bound. In the summer of 2004, she went to Ghana with the American Field Service. She returned in the summer of 2008 to set up a Youth Center for Peace in rural Sierra Leone. In between the two projects, specifically to help forward her Africa interests, she chose Harvard—where she is now an African and African American Studies concentrator pursuing a secondary in Chemistry...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Elizabeth S. Nowak | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...jock.” With a solid frame and confident walk, Brito looks more likely to spend his day carbo-loading for a track and field meet than working through abstract math problem sets in the library. Ask him to explain “A Universal Degree Bound for Rings of Invariants of n Point Configurations Modulo Torus Actions,” and that stereotype quickly disappears. But his understanding of the theorem shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering that he proved it this past summer with two professors in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Jonathan S. Brito | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...recently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and plans to pursue a Master of Science. in global health, and later an M.B.A. while at Oxford. Med school plans are in the works. He is also a two-year member of the varsity basketball team, the co-founder of the College Bound program, a neurobiology concentrator, and a member of The Phoenix...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Darryl W. Finkton, Jr. | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard, Finkton has started a college information program called College Bound, that aims to convince students in the local Roxbury community that college is something that should be on their radar screen...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Darryl W. Finkton, Jr. | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...blank analogies (e.g., blue:sky::____:grass). The test grew and by 1930 assumed its now familiar form, with separate verbal and math tests. By the end of World War II, the test was accepted by enough universities that it became a standard rite of passage for college-bound high school seniors. It remained largely unchanged (save the occasional tweak) until 2005, when the analogies were done away with and a writing section was added. (That section is graded separately from the verbal test, boosting the elusive perfect SAT score from 1600 to 2400.) (See more about the SAT revisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standardized Testing | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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