Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans says the academic components of orientation, such as placement tests and departmental advising, would "make it inappropriate for the [week's] program to be run entirely by students...
...schooled by now in the Three Questions ("What's your name? What dorm are you in? Where are you from?") Hopefully you met more people this Labor Day weekend than in any prior three-day period, and remembered enough about essay-writing and algebra to get through those early placement tests...
What Thompson, Venables and the never identified six-year-old have in common is not just their youthful violence. All of them seemed to understand, at least formally, that what they were doing was wrong. That's what the placement of Bulger's body on the tracks suggests; and the prosecutor of the six-year-old says three doctors concluded that the boy was able to discern right from wrong in the abstract. Similarly, in 1989, after nine-year-old Cameron Kocher shot Jessica Carr, age 7, with a rifle after an argument over Nintendo in their hometown in northeast...
Take, for example, Hong Kong-born Yat-Ming Judith Leung, valedictorian of the class of '98 at Nova High School in Davie, Fla. Leung, a poster child for the kind of diversity and achievement sought by colleges, earned a 4.0 GPA, taking 14 advanced-placement classes, and was accepted at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, with a generous aid package from each. By her calculation, Stanford's package was the best--a mix of loans and outright gifts. Her father earned just under $30,000 last year, and she felt her family couldn't afford to contribute as much as Yale...
During his first year at Harvard, Kaus used his advanced placement credits to enroll in Social Studies but neglected course work in favor of mobilizing student opposition...