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...kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a class--which in turn raised the quality of the whole experience on campus and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the next wave of applicants. "Just because you haven't heard of a college doesn't mean it's no good," argues Marilee Jones, the admissions dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of the idea that parents need to lighten up. "Just as you've changed and grown since college...
...first Upward Bound squad. He and his wife Aline, a teacher, created tutorials focused specifically on college entrance requirements. In the CASE (College Academic Skills Enhancement) curriculum, students work with computers to boost SAT scores. The G.S.A. (Graduate Student Athlete) program helps recent graduates better their chances with choosier schools. With curriculum designs complete, Doss spent $25,000 of his own money for court and classroom rentals, team travel, textbooks, uniforms, computers and software...
...Department, Spencer continued to work for Noriega well after that, under a contract renewed in August 1986. Back in the public eye as they restore ties to what they hope will be an Administration they can influence for another four years, these consultants- cum-lobbyists have reason to be choosier in the future about picking clients during political off years...
...resurgence of patriotism that has accompanied President Reagan's tenure, the government would have us believe the military is attracting higher quality volunteers. Since more people are trying to enlist, the government can afford to be choosier. Vice President George Bush told the West Point graduating class on May 23, that numbers were up, standards were up, and the American soldier is once again "the best trained, best fed, best clothed and best equipped in the world...
...volunteers, of whom West Point's Colonel Samuel H. Hays wrote: "In an infantry battalion during that period one might find only two or three high school graduates in nearly a thousand men. Technical proficiency was not at a high level; delinquency and court-martial rates were." Getting choosier, the Army raised qualifying scores on aptitude tests from 59 to 70, 80, and finally 90. Simultaneously, it limited recruits to men without dependents and those willing to sign up for a three-year hitch. When the Berlin blockade and the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia took place...