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"I felt that they were very receptive and were genuinely interested in what we had to say," said Dorothy Weiss '01, who sat next to Stone at the Phi Beta Kappa breakfast. "They responded well, and we definitely had the impression that they were being very thorough."
Before even glancing at grades or test scores, admissions officers at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, rate a student's personal statement. That first impression can color the whole discussion. The committee, for example, issued a swift rejection to a student whose essay was riddled with typos. After reading a...
The Addison show clearly chronicles Neel's evolution from a recent art-school grad (she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women), dealing with her rejection of academic training, to a confident, comfortable portraitist. Her earlier work is somewhat primitive in its calculated naivet. The tones are earthy and...
Neither did anyone else. The obscure 56-year-old constitutional lawyer is an unlikely savior of his nation. He is calm to the point of boring. He has labored for years in the backwaters of Serbian politics without making much of an impression. As a staunch anticommunist--and a zealous...
Contrary to the impression given by your story "Rethinking the Big Test: No SAT Scores Required" [EDUCATION, Sept. 11], the nation's four-year colleges and universities are neither eliminating nor reducing SAT requirements as an element in their admissions process. The College Board's annual Survey of Colleges shows...