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Past performance may not be an accurate predictor here. Dartmouth still has a veteran team and regards Harvard as a top rival; after all, this is the teams' 102nd meeting...
Thernstrom also agreed that LSAT scores were agood predictor of law school performance...
...integral to vetting applications that even supporters of affirmative action reject the idea of dumping the LSAT as a way of recruiting more minority students. Says Michael Sharlot, dean of the University of Texas Law School, where only four blacks enrolled last fall: "It isn't a great predictor of performance in first-year classes, but it's still better than anything else I know...
Marsden promptly posted Scotti's data on the Harvard Center's Website, making them available to other astronomers. In early March, those data and newer observations by two Japanese amateur astronomers and a Texas scientist were fed into the Harvard Center's number-crunching orbit predictor, which spat out the 30,000-mile "miss distance" that led Marsden to make his dramatic announcement...
...branch predictor unit anticipates the most likely path the instructions will take, thus getting a head start on the work...