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...high school offered only three Advanced Placement courses, and few students ever scored higher than 2 out of a possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Differences Persist Within Student Body | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...addition to lack of counseling and Advanced Placement courses, students in poorer communities are also far less likely to have access to exam-preparation courses that teach strategies for doing well on standardized tests, or to be able to hire private college counselors, a tactic increasingly resorted to by anxious students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Differences Persist Within Student Body | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...alone points to the dire necessity of an internal review. However, the staff attacks the career service with little evidence of other mismanagement. While we believe the resources of OCS are unfairly allotted in favor of business careers, they are in general no better or worse than most job-placement offices in the nation and do not deserve unsubstantiated allegations of incompetence...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: OCS Is Up to Par | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...Business School has faced declining rankings in the national publications during the last few years despite the high placement rate and salaries of graduates

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School to Use GMAT | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

...necessarily. Carvey says the parody- as-plug idea was his. "It was just kind of boring to call it The Dana Carvey Show," he says. "The idea came off of sports shows like the Doritos Cotton Bowl." Actually, it was the Mobil Cotton Bowl, so maybe in-show product placement isn't as effective as advertisers hope. At any rate, Carvey isn't quite the "whore" his show alleges. Though Pepsico pays ABC extra for the special treatment, "if they were paying me more, I wouldn't do it," Carvey says, adding that he okayed the deal only after Pepsico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: YOUR SHOW OF SHILLS | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

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