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...people happen much easier." To parents footing the bill, though, that can be welcome news. The quiet suite that New York University sophomore Haley Plourde-Cole, 19, shares with two roommates in a luxury high-rise dorm has made it easier for her to study and keep a 3.6 GPA. That makes the $10,000 bill a lot easier for her father Stuart to swallow. Says Dad: "She's earned it." --With reporting by Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Deborah Edler Brown/Seattle, Jeanne Dequine/Miami and Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago
Sarah M.G. Otner ’06 is lobbying Harvard administrators to allow the University to become the fifth Ivy League school to allow its first and second-year students who have a 3.4 GPA for at least one term to join the Washington, D.C.-based National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS), an honors society...
Hyde also took issue with the idea that a lower GPA means an athlete is “underperforming...
...admissions officers at elite institutions, an investigation conducted by the UC schools system—the single largest institution to require both the SAT I and SAT II—revealed the SAT I was a worse indicator of future performance than the SAT II exam or high school GPA. The study also revealed that reliance on the SAT II reduced the effects of socio-economic differences among applicants, thus correcting the major complaint against the SAT I. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 recognizes those predictive shortcomings...
Both Thomas and Schwartz arrived at HBS this fall, each superstars in their own right. Schwartz, whose 4.0 GPA also earned her a spot Yale law school, will be concurrently pursuing her J.D. and M.B.A., while Thomas hopes to use his HBS experience to help his mother country, England, land the 2012 Olympic Games...