Word: criteria
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Harvard states it Judges academic ability mainly on two criteria, CEEB board scores and the school record. Fifty per cent of Harvard sons score below 650 on the verbal SAT as compared to 18 per cent of the others. Forty-six per cent of the preppies scored below 650 while only 12 per cent of the others did. In Loewen's Sample 61 per cent of the alumni sons fell below Group 3 compared with 32 per cent of the others. For preppies the trend was weaker but still obvious. Nineteen pre cent were Group 2 as compared with...
...groups were of the same intelligence, the ones with the much better preparation should score higher than, or at least as high as the others. Yet at Harvard Preppies are the ones who score lower. Whether or not they are really less intelligent, judging by Harvard's criteria, they are indeed less intelligent. They may be smarter, but they aren't showing it according to Harvard's indicators. What about narture and inheritance? It has not made them as impressive academically. It is only through long contact with Harvard that by their senior year the preppies do almost as well...
...Direct the Federal Government to develop criteria for reducing the toll taken by black lung...
...procedures by which I have been appointed special assistant to Mr. Pusey. In any case, I accept. Shall I wait to hear from the Corporation or report immediately for work (which, I gather from the statement I am supposed to have made, will include an assessment of the criteria by which ad hoc committees made appointments to the Faculty...
...removing the financial motivation of decision-making from most discussions. If it were well-known, student protest would be much more dangerous. When they do discuss financial decisions, administrators cherish the impression that policy decisions are dictated by economic necessity. Actually, the policy decisions are made, then the financial criteria are set up accordingly. For instance, administrators usually counter the arguments of reformers by claiming that this or that change "would be too expensive." Thus, we must raise tuition, but, they say, we "can't afford" to raise scholarships. Or, we can't invest part of the endowment in Roxbury...