Word: grading
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...legacy, an entire section of the COOP exists specifically to make your life miserable, with crimson baby booties and Harvard bath towels—even Harvard teddy bears. Your family dinners have been interrupted for years by Harvard students calling to ask for donations. When you were in eighth grade, you had to trek up to Cambridge for your mother’s 25th reunion. It rained the whole time, and you had to listen to fifty year-old Pitches trying to recreate jazz standards.And yet you still applied. After hearing about your uncle’s halcyon days...
...vaccine, which was initially developed to prevent tuberculosis, causes low-grade inflammation that prevents abnormal immune cells from destroying cells that produce insulin in the pancreas; scientists say this might be a cure for Type 1 diabetes...
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Hidden beneath the numerous cards, tickets, and to-do lists stuffed in my wallet, taped onto your refrigerator above that painting from second grade, buried beneath papers in some drawer, are sage pieces of advice with a humble origin: a bite-sized baked cookie. These small cookies, however, have quite a big story. In “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food,” Jennifer 8. Lee ’98-’99, a New York Times Reporter, embarks on a journey that bridges many centuries, many countries, many people...
...studies last week that call for a reassessment of ways that universities have traditionally predicted applicants’ future college performance. The studies, which were presented at the conference of the American Educational Research Association last week, recommend that universities seriously consider other measurements of predictive performance outside of grade point average and standardized test scores. For example, colleges could request that applicants complete a questionnaire presenting different scenarios that would reveal interpersonal skills and personal discipline, University of Minnesota professor Nathan R. Kuncel proposed in one of the studies. Regarding many colleges’ practice of using interviews, letters...