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Word: niskayuna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ranking near the top of her 300-person class at Niskayuna High School, however, and coolly trying to decide between attending Harvard or Cornell University, Subramanian also represents the prize catch for top schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Profiles of Prospective Freshmen: Seeing Diversity in Early `Action' | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

...when Subramanian offhandedly speaks of her Harvard acceptance as "a pleasant surprise," that's when admissions officers squirm and struggle. A daughter of Indian immigrants who was raised in Niskayuna, New York, (pop. about 5000), Subramanian is the big fish for whom the lure of recruitment programs like pre-frosh weekend are intended. And it is her attitude that captures a sentiment more common among pre-frosh in April than in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Profiles of Prospective Freshmen: Seeing Diversity in Early `Action' | 2/24/1989 | See Source »

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