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Another gain from more rankings is decreasing the vast incentives for colleges to selectively report, or even misreport, student data. For example, many colleges, such as Northeastern University and Boston University, exclude the verbal SAT scores of their international students—traditionally low—but report their math scores—traditionally high. In another case, Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., once overstated its SAT scores by more than 200 points. In 1993, even Harvard was found to have overstated its SAT scores by 15 points. Furthermore, a large component of the U.S. News rankings?...
...Undergraduate Council (UC). Aside from the boost in the UC’s budget due to last year’s fee hike, McLoughlin says there has been little growth in total grant money while the number of student groups has gone through the roof. If you do the math, the result is quite striking; the UC had about $213,500 to give out last year, but there are so many groups that distributed evenly, each group would only get about $700. If multiple overlapping student groups merged or worked together, a lot of the overhead and duplicate infrastructure could...
...coupled with substantial teacher training, but, by the time we complete our intense concentration requirements, most of us at least have the essential subject background needed to teach at the elementary if not the high school level. Don’t let those semesters in History 10b or Math 21a go to waste!8. Never a dull moment: No matter how brilliant your melt-in-your-mouth economics lesson is, two classes never unfold in exactly the same way. The constantly-changing dynamics within each group of students ensure that you always have to be on your toes, ready...
...Miers' case, being in the right place meant being a Texan who crossed paths with George W. Bush at a gala dinner in 1989 and eventually turned to follow him. A math major at Southern Methodist University (she was one year ahead of Laura Bush at S.M.U.), she dreamed of being a doctor but didn't think she was smart enough and didn't encounter enough people to tell her otherwise. Her turn toward the law had a very personal trigger: it was a lawyer who helped her family navigate the challenges of her father's shattering stroke...
Suffice it to say, I understand how hard it is to be a well-dressed Harvard female. If a fat man was constantly telling me that I was bad at math and science, then I too would have no choice but to sport a Hillary Clinton-style head band to class in a last ditch effort to be taken seriously...