Word: freshmen
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Shirley Tilghman, the president of Princeton, told me of two freshmen. Each had won the Westinghouse [now Intel] Science prize. The woman said, Gosh, I was so surprised. The young man said, I knew my project was great - I always knew I'd win. One thinks he deserves to win; the other is surprised. That was by the time they were freshmen in college. So, yes, it does start young. We all need to be aware of it and work to enhance girls...
...article notes that there is a considerable discrepancy between the number of entering freshmen who declare the intention to enroll in the life sciences and the number of students who actually do so. This striking pattern of high-school-to-college-major science attrition is a well-documented educational phenomenon; it is certainly not specific to Harvard. A nationwide study of 115,300 Life Sciences undergraduates reported in the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators (2008) found that 51 percent of students entering university intending to major in the life sciences switched out of the life...
...save percentage.Not to mention juniors Jenny Brine and Sarah Wilson, tied with Cahow for second on the team with 13 goals each.If there is a question mark surrounding the Crimson, it lies in the team’s youth. Aside from its core of veterans, Harvard features five freshmen that have seen consistent playing time this season. The youngsters have performed admirably, playing sound defense and finding opportunities to score on a team full of scorers and making up for lack of experience with raw talent, but how they will respond to the pressures of the postseason remains...
...weight throw, good enough for fourth place, while classmate Jill Sylvester finished close behind with a tenth-place toss of 13.19m. The Crimson logged three top-20 performances in the long jump, with sophomore Kelli Okuji anchoring the Harvard jumpers with a fifth-best 5.40m leap. Freshmen Jessica Fronk and Dina Emde rounded out the Crimson effort with 5.12m and 4.44m jumps for eighth and 17th place finishes, respectively. Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler finished in a three-way tie with AirTime Athletic’s Ashley Nolet atop the pole vault finishers by clearing...
...competitiveness of the college applicant pool continues to soar, and the pressure on ambitious high school seniors to perform intensifies, administrators and students alike opine about the so-called “burn out” effect. Still recuperating from an overly stressful year, many incoming freshmen are ill-equipped to participate in university life. Princeton aims to counteract this phenomenon with its proposed “bridge year” program: an initiative enabling newly admitted students to pursue a year of international public service before delving into the pressures of campus life. Admission to the program would...