Word: overlapping
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...tuition rates and fees, agreed never to grant aid solely on the basis of a student's academic merit, and met to negotiate how much need-based financial aid should be offered to individual students accepted by two or more of the member institutions. Ostensibly the goal of this "Overlap Group," dismantled in 1991 after a two-year federal antitrust investigation, was to equalize the amount of money a given student's family would be required to contribute and thus keep price from clouding the student's decision. In practice, by liberating schools from price competition, the arrangement may have...
...gender imbalance was only one of Harvard's many polar disparities between gender studies and the study of economics. Besides surface differences, economics and gender studies have surprisingly little student enrollment overlap, and in my experience students in each department have little or no experience in the other field. For example, few of my peers in the gender studies class had ever read an economic critique of Marx, although Marx's writings were discussed in the class. On the other hand, few economics concentrators have any desire to gain an appreciation of cultural discourse on gender...
...surprisingly, there is a great overlap in people who are accepted and people who are National Merit Scholars. It is certainly not a guarantee of admissions by any means. It is merely coincidental," she said...
...Overlap is certainly the key to this novel. Overlap between Ladd, Stewart and the universal college experience is what gives Sarah's Psalm the interesting angles that snare the interest of the reader. Read the book and keep your eyes open for the author -- Ladd gives readings and presentations all around Cambridge, and can be found at the Bunting Institute...
...thing that was apparent to us was that we represent a lot of people on campus," he said. "There was some overlap among activities and friends, but on the aggregate we cover a lot of the student body. They will be represented well...