Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to concerns that incoming students have received insufficent academic preparation from their high schools, the Core Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss ways of studying the problem...
Committee members said this week they want to conduct a study of student academic backgrounds, in an effort to determine just how much their preparations in high school varied...
Lewis said that in the planned study, the Core Committee will probably look at questionniares completed by first-year students before they arrive at school, indicating how many years of each subject they had studied in high school. But the Committee may decide at Tuesday's meeting that they need even more data, Lewis said...
...admissions director said that Harvard frequently accepts students whose backgrounds do not match the recommended standards because they might show promise of future success. Many high schools simply do not offer the courses Harvard would like students to have taken, she added...
...This year's [guest list of skaters] is thestrongest skater line-up ever," said Eliot HouseJimmy Fund co-chair Jessica L. Deysach '90. "It'shard to find people with high name appeal...