Word: placement
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Harvard Law School this year received more applications than it has since 1982. Approximately 7000 students applied to the Law School this year, up from 5000 last year, according to N. June Thompson, director of placement and assistant director of admissions. The Law School generally accepts 800 students in an effort to generate a first-year class of 540 students, Thompson says...
Daniels said the alumni did not resent the purpose of the shanty, but rather its placement on a plaza originally designed to memorialize "the Yale men who died in the World Wars...
...long ago, the class of '88 was braced for a far gloomier situation. When the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 508 points on Oct. 19, it raised the specter of an economic recession and widespread joblessness. Fearful seniors -- joined by a smattering of overwrought underclassmen -- rushed to college placement offices in search of advice, sometimes creating such a backlog that students had to wait a month or more for an appointment with a counselor. Corporations grew just as edgy: some recruiters put campus visits on hold until they could sort out the aftereffects of the market meltdown...
...things turned out, the Crash of '87 did little to scuttle the best- laid plans of the class of '88. As expected, fewer Wall Street firms turned up on campuses for job interviews, and those that did hired fewer people. But many college placement officers actively solicited the personnel directors of old-line manufacturing companies, which had generated relatively little interest from students in the days when red-suspendered Wall Streeters reigned as the big men on campus. General Motors is hiring 1,064 college graduates this year, twice the number it recruited in 1987. The University of Texas...
...that most members of last year's class targeted. An all-day career seminar at the University of Virginia (total enrollment: 11,096) drew a standing-room- only crowd of more than 550 students, even though it was held on a Saturday. Says Larry Simpson, U.Va.'s placement director: "I've been here 20 years, and I have never seen students as career conscious as they are today...