Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blake joined the team in the fall with the full intention of playing all four years at Harvard, but his exceptional play this year led him to consider the pro option...
Blake quickly turned some heads this season as he made the semifinals of the Penn Classic in the fall. At the National Indoor Championships, he eliminated the No.8 seed, Mike Brian, and advanced to the semifinals in doubles with his brother...
Even if he does not achieve his dream, Blake still will most likely take the fall semester off to continue playing professionally as there are few major college tennis tournaments then. He will make a final decision about returning to Harvard in the spring...
...total application. The exam is so integral to vetting applications that even supporters of affirmative action reject the idea of dumping the LSAT as a way of recruiting more minority students. Says Michael Sharlot, dean of the University of Texas Law School, where only four blacks enrolled last fall: "It isn't a great predictor of performance in first-year classes, but it's still better than anything else I know...
...term," Sharlot says, "nothing could be more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course at Florida A&M, a black university; six sat for the LSAT in the fall, and five scored in the 150s--on level with the national average for whites. Christie Stancil took the course at North Carolina Central University after her junior year, and her LSATs went up eight points. Her score helped her get into Yale Law School...