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Another important and unique feature of Harvard admissions with respect to student-athletes is something known as the “broken leg test.” The test is a thought experiment designed to gauge how valuable each applicant could be to the Harvard community and it determines whether or not a prospective student-athlete has the necessary drive and focus to contribute to other aspects of the Harvard community as well as in the classroom...
Essentially, an admissions officer asks, “If this person were to break his or her leg so severely that further participation in athletics would be impossible, how would the student adjust and still contribute to his or her peers and members of the Harvard community?” According to Scalise and Fitzsimmons, every athlete that is recruited to Harvard must past the “broken leg” test as a final hurdle to admission, regardless of AI score...
...only scoring in the second half came by way of Peter Iverson’s leg...
...some respects, this little band would have been without a leg to stand on if not for the explosion of Internet music trading that reached a feverishly high pitch only a few months ago. With all of the hullabaloo over copyright laws and getting the music into the hands of the people, Dispatch stands outside of the whole corporate fight to stop Internet trading. As an unsigned band that has yet to positively acknowledge the offers from both Epic and Dreamworks, Dispatch “can’t not be cool with that [Internet trading] because...
...some respects, this little band would have been without a leg to stand on if not for the explosion of Internet music trading that reached a feverishly high pitch only a few months ago. With all of the hullabaloo over copyright laws and getting the music into the hands of the people, Dispatch stands outside of the whole corporate fight to stop Internet trading. As an unsigned band that has yet to positively acknowledge the offers from both Epic and Dreamworks, Dispatch “can’t not be cool with that [Internet trading] because...