Word: finalist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Socratic method. Says Lance: "It's more like the Lamaze method: a lot of huffing and subdued screams. When they start coming every 30 seconds or so, I deliver an essay." For his labors, he won a 1981 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism and was a finalist a second time this spring...
Along with U.R.I., Radcliffe will have the chance to face McGill, a lightweight team from Canada. One of the Canadian women was a finalist at the CRASH-B indoor rowing championships this year, so McGill has a strong, if not necessarily fast, team...
Nonetheless, in the upper reaches of the meritocracy, there have been glints of truth to the "science nerd" generalization. Of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search this year, 18 were Asian American. Yet while there are no statistics on the shift among Asian Americans away from the sciences, there is no doubt it is happening. "I can see a difference in those students just two or three years younger than me," says Mark Kuo, 22, a Harvard senior who, along with his two brothers, was a Westinghouse finalist while at the Bronx High School of Science...
...National Merit Scholarship Finalist, she says, and was accepted by the University of Virginia under their Early Decision plan. She didn't consider applying to Harvard, she says, because everything she wanted was available in Virginia...
Johnson, the only finalist who could be reached yesterday, declined to comment