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...more than a minute. Only Peters' cool ministrations to Kasatka and his fellow trainers' use of hand signals and underwater sounds prevented tragedy as a large audience watched, stunned. Peters is now in the hospital for a broken bone in his left foot. (See a TIME photo-essay on sharks...
...draft of his admission essay, Zambrano connects the struggles of his grandfather with his own life: “This strong-willed Zambrano gene was instilled in me as well.” The essay describes living in the “myopic, conservative town” of Stockton, Calif., where Zambrano attends the only public school in the district. The school boasts diversity and a growing Latino population, but Zambrano voices a different opinion. “I was a smart kid, I had good grades, but the attention was on the white kids in my class...
...long wait before the December decision day is nothing compared to the whirlwind of pressure that Wang went through before the application deadline. “A couple of days I stayed up until three just doing the essays and no homework,” says Wang. “I was almost crying because of the essays! I asked my mom to look over them, and my first essay was pretty bad, and I guess she was honest. I don’t usually don’t take criticism extremely well, and it was unusual because I usually...
...Zambrano, too is looking forward. He writes in his essay that he hopes to become a politician later in life. But Wang is just trying to keep her mind off the process. She’s looking forward to the ice-skating season, and she’s hoping to go to regional competition for Business Professionals of America. Pondering about what going to Harvard would mean is a premature question...
...oddly Ivy League way of conveying this information. It’s differently phrased,” Franks said of the lines which have been most widely criticized. “This almost sounded like someone who was trying to write an essay about raping Harvard women...