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Despite the team's recent struggles, Harvard's offense, which ranks ninth in the country, continues to impress. The Crimson posted 437 total yards against the Mountain Hawks, and Rose has thrown for over three hundred yards for the third time in four games. No other Harvard quarterback has thrown for 300 hundred yards more than twice in his career...
...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 take 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, he 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...
...name DJ who has also managed to retain the respect of the underground, Tong's Essential Selection show on BBC Radio is now into its ninth year. He has deftly pulled off the precarious task of threading the line between hosting a national radio dance show with a listenership of two million, while keeping up with the latest trends in house, hip-hop, jungle, funk and soul. His Essential Selection compilation albums and his work with London's famed Ministry of Sound club have also kept the average music listener up to date with the latest tunes...