Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wealthy and well-counseled have traditionally dominated Harvard's early admission pool, but the admissions office maintains that this year's 9.3 percent jump in early applicants will not skew the class...
However, Fitzsimmons says the "competitive edge," or the level of achievement necessary for admission, does not vary much from year to year, regardless of whether the most qualified students apply in the early process or the regular one. Nor does the more affluent background of the early applicant pool mean that the diversity of the class changes, he says...
Last year, approximately half of the class-or about 20 to 25 percent of the early applicant pool--was admitted early. The acceptance rate of regular applicants was significantly lower at 8 to 10 percent to fill the remaining half of the class...
Fitzsimmons agrees that Harvard's earlyapplication pool generally has fewer minority andfinancial aid-seeking applicants, but this yearunder-represented groups began to catch up in theearly pool...
...anyway. What do people as privileged as Parrish and his family, at least as they are presented in Meet Joe Black, know about life? Mostly they are observed dressed to the nines, eating delicately prepared viands and enjoying life in either a Manhattan penthouse, where one prays the swimming pool does not spring a leak and ruin the library's first editions, or a riverside mansion, where the helicopter pad blends nicely into the landscape. There is no rage, pain or panic in any of these venues, and no wild laughter either. There are only the muttered discontents...