Word: factor
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...bear little correlation to actual academic success in college. That is why colleges do not base their general admission policies solely on board scores. Class rank, more a function of the size and caliber of the student's high school than the student's aptitude, is only one small factor into the general admissions process...
...final part of the index, grades, is a more effective measure, but it also subject to occasional flaws. Superior students are sometimes inept in a single subject, which pulls down their overall grade point average; this human factor is often accounted for by understanding admissions officers...
Uncertain voters will be impressed by the barbs, the laughs and the cutting retorts or maybe by which candidate is better able to keep his cool. One would hope that someday these superficial issues--long a major factor in American elections--will fade in importance, and that political and ideological concerns will become paramount to every voter...
Affirmative action programs are based on the assumption that race can be a factor, but not the sole factor, in making hiring decsions. In other words, the candidate must be otherwise qualified. But in the exchange program, the assumption would be that race was indeed the only factor, since the University would be making it clear that it had no intention of ever tenuring the professors, thus distinguishing them from other visiting scholars...
...deficit, which Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro announced at a faculty meeting on Monday, is largely the result of a sharp drop in alumni donations, said Spies. He added that the university library's budget overrun was another major factor in this year's fiscal problems...