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...enrolled at City College of New York, a free school that had become a kind of immigrant Oxford. He tore through the place--nearly all A's--and finished just shy of summa cum laude. (He totaled his car shortly after getting that news from a dean. "I got a C in Faulkner," he explains today, still annoyed. "My third year speaking English, and I'm reading Faulkner!") But when he graduated in 1960, the New York Times trumpeted the success. His professors knew they'd hear from him again. "I was a little astonished by that kind of ambition...
Chan, a social studies concentrator and a native New Yorker, plans to obtain either a masters or a doctorate in European politics at Oxford. Chan, who is also a Crimson executive, said he has a particular interest in urban poverty...
Rapp, an economics concentrator from Honolulu, plans to continue his studies at Oxford, specializing in the economics of the educational labor market...
Sheu, a biochemistry concentrator from Dunwoody, Ga., will be going to Oxford to research malaria and the human response to the disease. He said that he hopes to coming up with a vaccine which will help millions...
...difference between the two is that the Marshall tends to have more tolerance for people with particular excellence in one area. The Marshall committee also focuses more on academics, asking applicants to think beyond Oxford and Cambridge to identify the program in the U.K. best suited to their interests...