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...normal World Series. Each game was the be-all-end-all, the apocalypse of baseball. Division series records stopped mattering, and it was all about the rivalry. Now, with the teams actually fighting for the World Series, the intensity level is constantly at bases loaded, bottom of the ninth. Baseball has never seen anything like...
Yenne, who had been trailing behind Westfall, cut across to the center of the field unmarked. Westfall, streaking downfield, crossed the ball just outside the 18 to Yenne, who one-timed the ball into the right corner of the net for her Ivy-best ninth goal of the year...
...competition has never been fiercer. Nor have students been better prepared. These days, kids in junior high take high school academic classes to make room for more demanding courses in the later grades. And in just the past decade, there's been an 83% increase in the number of ninth-graders who take the SAT--just for practice...
...even if you didn't study calculus in the ninth grade, there are steps you can take at application time to better your odds. Last spring three of the country's most selective schools--Rice University, Bowdoin College and Cornell University--allowed TIME behind the closed doors of their admissions deliberations. The one stipulation: that TIME not use the names or certain identifying characteristics of kids like Theater Boy. The insights we gleaned won't substitute for top scores and grades. But they did puncture some of the myths that often prevent an applicant from winning admission...
With scattered Cs in the ninth and 10th grades and football and guitar as his only extracurriculars, Comeback Kid would normally have missed Bowdoin's first cut of applications. But in his essay he wrote of how he'd spent those first two years of high school "slowly poisoning myself in a pool of malted hops." Then a close relative who was an alcoholic died of a stroke. After that, Comeback Kid cut out the beer, got A-pluses in his senior year and won a national writing award. He also won a unanimous thumbs-up for admission...