Word: extracurricular
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...talented students—I believe it has more to do with a culture of low expectations, where few parents or teachers expect even the best students to go to a top college, even if they are more than qualified, as shown by their grades, test scores and extracurricular achievements. Most of the students I shared honors classes with did not look beyond small colleges near home, or did not think about college at all until they were already too far behind in the application process. As Green’s article points out, some 43 percent of high-performing...
...wanted to take advantage of academic and other extracurricular opportunities during my final year here that wouldn’t be possible with the huge time commitment of basketball,” Dunham said...
Mental health problems are increasingly common among university student communities. The impact of mental illness is serious: it includes personal suffering, and often difficulties in social and mentoring relationships, problems with learning and academic performance, interference with extracurricular activities and, in the most severe cases, risk of suicide. Indeed, one of the clearest conclusions from recent research is that mental disorders are highly disabling. For example, in the United States and other developed nations, major depression is the leading cause of disability...
...love being able to create teas and parties that provide Lowellians with at least a moment of escape from the demanding academic and extracurricular stresses of Harvard,” she says. “We want Lowell to be a magical, comforting place...
...culture of success at Harvard is often railed against; I know I’m not the first. But it’s interesting to see how that culture we generally adopt to gain entrance here tends to color social and extracurricular life during our four years...