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Only for marginal candidates do other, subjective admission criteria, such as recommendations and essays, come into play, she says...
...Millner forces complain that Cleland is "running on biography," saying he would rather talk about his life than the issues. "He does have difficulties, but those are not the criteria for a U.S. Senator," says Millner spokesman Stuart Roy. "Nor does it say how you will vote in the U.S. Senate." But Millner, who came within 33,000 votes of defeating Governor Zell Miller two years ago, has been equally aggressive about running on his own Horatio Alger-like biography. He went from working in his father's gas station at age 10 and putting himself through college selling pots...
...guide reviews secrets of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), the major criteria that are used to judge applicants, financing medical school, and what to do if rejected from a medical school...
...hardly blame the comission, given the criteria they were using. Perot's star has fallen significantly since 1992 and the general frustration and anger of the electorate has quieted in the last four years. Without the ability to dig deep into his personal coffers, Perot can hardly spend his way out of his deficit in the polls. But I can't help but be disturbed by the notion that a man who is on the ballot in almost all 50 states, has a national organization and has political positions on most of the major issues...
...fact, it is unlikely that had an impact on the shift in rankings. According to "Best Colleges" supplement editor Mel Elfin, himself the recipient of a master's degree here, Harvard's drop can be attributed to a change in the criteria, rather than a decline in the quality of a Harvard education. For the first time, the percentage of classes with 50 or more students was included as part of the equation used to rank the schools. At 21 percent, Harvard more than doubles Yale's nine percent. It isn't until 31st-ranked UCLA, with 29 percent, that...