Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shepsle was a math major as an undergraduate, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. When he was closed out of a mathematical physics class as a junior, his advisor suggested that he take a political science class instead. He did--and he loved it, and went on to graduate studies in the field at the University of Rochester...
...average combined score on the two-part exam was 906--475 on the math section, 431 on the verbal--unchanged from the previous year, according to the College Board, which administers the test. The test is scored on a scale of 200 to 800, with 1600 being a perfect combined score...
South Dakota, where only three percent of seniors take the test, posted the highest average combined score of 1098--567 math, 531 verbal. South Carolina had the lowest average--431 math, 395 verbal, 826 combined--but 49 percent took the exam...
...math class was taught by a prof who combined the intellectual clarity of Immanuel Kant with the accent of Sgt. Schulz. This professor liked to verbally footnote his lectures, and as the semester wore on he dwelled at length on the logical niceties of increasingly obscure proofs, often forgetting to explain what he was trying to prove...
Kelly will take her leadership abilities back home to Garden City, N.Y., where she will teach math, and coach field hockey and girl's basketball at her former high school next fall. She calls those plans "a great chance to relax" before pursuing medical school goals the following year...