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...They start pulling out the mats. A few people have already arrived and are lacing up shoes or silently taping their hands. One girl shadowboxes her blurred image in the mirror. The room smells of chlorine from the pool below, which mingles with sweat to create a heavy, pungent smell as the afternoon continues...
...grass being greener,” several members of the well-heeled Porcellian, which does not allow visitors at all, have complained of the challenges of working around their club’s restrictive guest policies. “The limited dating pool makes planning for club formals such an ordeal,” says Porc member Julian I. Baumgarden ’05. “I mean, I have to get a new tweed coat and oxfords for every event and there isn’t a soul in here who hasn?...
...that could make them a good fit. I equate it with a very strong counselor recommendation in someone’s file or a good music review of a tape.” While he says that if a candidate is “not competitive in the overall pool, there’s nothing that we can do, if they’re on the fence, we will certainly reiterate why we think highly of them, and that may help their application...
...measuring multiplicities of merit, and balancing the often-conflicting aims of representativeness, diversity, excellence, and the liberal arts, Byerly Hall tries to follow a similar principle: be uniquely excellent in something, and capable of anything. Such students are rare. But when you have the best-qualified applicant pool in the country, 20,000 deep, you take less than one in ten, and you get four of five you take, maybe you can have your cake...
...original pool of 75 applicants was narrowed to 16 finalists last Monday...