Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name Gina M. Grant was especially popular as students participated in the eternal debate as to whether or not the elite Harvard should have admitted such a horrific crime-ridden person. Well, she wasn't admitted; but many years ago, Theodore J. Kaczynski '62 was admitted. He was a math concentrator, he graduated and when he grew up, he became the suspected Unabomber! A celebrity. There is something almost sickly refreshing about the fact that the Unabomber may have graduated from Harvard. I think it makes the school a little more diverse in a way that I wonder whether...
...policies, found that "Asian American applicants have been admitted at a significantly lower rate than white applicants" and found that admissions office readers frequently wrote stereotyping comments on the applications of Asian American students. These remarks included: "so typical of other Asian applicants I've read: extraordinarily gifted in math with the opposite extreme in English." Although the department did not find Harvard to be in violation of federal statutes, it criticized Harvard's preferential admission of (mostly white) legacy students...
...biggie. But if you want to practice medicine, and yet you also love American history or French literature or John Locke, then this decision is monumental. Essentially it asks: Do I hereby hand over a significant portion of my college education to some intro-level science and math courses which will be tremendous sources of frustration and boredom? Or, phrased more generally: Do I sacrifice the life-enriching privileges of a liberal arts education for a possible or likely career goal...
...summer before your first year that a meaningless pass/fail class would mean one less elective when you were older. Or let's go back even earlier--if only you had known in high school that you would want to be pre-med and then had taken some chemistry, biology, math or physics AP tests so as to open more slots in college...
...left low-income students concentrated in high-poverty schools. A massive 1993 Department of Education study of Chapter One, the compensatory-education program for poor children, found that recipients of Chapter One services in schools where at least three-quarters of the children were poor scored substantially lower in math and reading than recipients attending schools where fewer than half were poor...