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Over the same period, the average SAT score has risen 61 points, with an 18% reduction in the disparity between minority and nonminority scores. The dropout rate is down from 11% in 1995 to 3% today. Even extracurricular pursuits are reaching new heights: the choir just hauled home a crystal trophy from a national competition, and a new robotics club placed well in its first outing...
...year-old from Massachusetts, adding, "Parents are competing with other parents to see whose kid is better and smarter." Declared a California teen: "I usually don't finish my homework until 11 p.m. I'm so stressed. I get good grades, but I'm in fear that without more extracurricular activities, I may not get into the college I want." And we got this poignant e-mail from a 14-year-old Ontario girl: "School is great, and so is studying, but sometimes when I'm working inside on a beautiful day I almost start to cry. I hope...
...desks in their respective department “resource centers.” In these centers, students can extend a discussion that occurred in class, or informally chat about the Yankees or the relative merit of the latest Pokémon movie. This daytime accessibility, combined with heavy extracurricular involvement, enables frequent student-faculty interaction. Harvard could never implement a comparable system, but it could certainly do more than the status...
...Even trickier than the task of teaching overachieving peers about computational complexity or multivariable calculus is the challenge TFs face of balancing teaching responsibilities with other academic and extracurricular obligations...
...salutatorians, merit scholars and varsity athletes whose entire lives have been defined by the quest for achievement and success. Here in Cambridge, surrounded by the crème de la crème of America’s future ruling class, we compete for everything—good grades, extracurricular offices, club memberships, summer internships, Law School acceptances, consulting jobs and of course, attractive significant others...