Word: pooling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...He’s worked so hard both in his individual training and as a captain. He really motivates everyone. We were all really hoping he would win.” His individual NCAA Tournament battle is not to be overlooked. In what Brand called the toughest pool of fencers he’s seen in the last five or six years, Hagamen first had to make it through the round-robin play—which he did handily, winning 19 of 22 bouts—and then through two of the top fencers in the country in final-four...
...This particular boarding school supported a number of arcane traditions, one of which was a mandatory drown-proofing seminar. My gym class and I entered a cold pool at six in the morning, fully clothed and wearing shoes, to float for 30 minutes. At first, the experience was kind of soothing. Then, the football coach sprayed us with a high-powered hose to mimic “conditions...
...drown-proofing exercise failed to render me sea-worthy, instead just leaving me angry and wet, but it ended up being a life-altering exercise in a broad scope. That moment in the pool crystallized the school’s systemic absurdity: Despite all of the good things about it, boarding school is an irredeemably terrible idea. So, I never really bought in—I had fun, fooled around, and messed up, at least in comparison to the average student here...
Harvard’s September decision to end early admissions reaffirmed the University’s place at the forefront of efforts to expand diversity in higher education. With a single admissions pool, it should become considerably easier in the coming years to attract a truly socio-economically diverse applicant pool, building stronger and more balanced classes...
Early admissions programs, whereby a student applies in November and receives a decision in December, unfairly advantage the already advantaged. The early applicant pool is traditionally admitted at around twice the rate of the regular pool—meaning that Harvard’s already intimidating admissions statistics look even grimmer for regular applicants, with as little as six percent of the regular pool admitted. As a result, applicants with little knowledge of the admissions process and even less guidance with which to navigate it—applicants who also tend to come from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds?...