Word: folder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Letters. Then he's up off the chaise and inside the house. In another moment he's joined me at the umbrella-covered picnic table, a thick folder filled with newspaper clippings in his hand...
...much as we can of what we are asked, but sometimes it is impossible. Today, a guy said he wanted a roommate who "digs beauty', but it's kind of hard to judge from a student's folder whether or not he 'digs beauty...
...Houses. A student's predicted rank list (a measure of how well the Deans expect him to do in his four years), his field of concentration, his athletic and extracurricular activities, and the personal evaluation of his proctor and senior advisor all become part of a freshman's folder...
Smith said that on the basis of these readings--two or three for each folder--the overall quality of this year's applicants is "slightly higher" than last year's. He added, however, that a true picture of this year's applicants is impossible to draw until the entire Committee has gone through every folder...
Every applicant is assigned an advocate according to the geographical location of his secondary school. The advocate is one of three men who read and evaluate an appilanct's folder, after which a preliminary decision is made in a small sub-committee responsible for a geographical area. If a student is rejected at this level, he is probably through. His case will not even be presented before the full admissions committee unless new evidence becomes available or, as Whitla puts it, "the advocate decides after sleeping on it that he didn't argue a certain case effectively in the area...