Word: predictors
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...tracked the spread of my uncle's baldness--a predictor of my own hairline--I studied harder and harder to compensate. My uncle eventually got so bald that I became valedictorian. I'm fairly certain that millions of other bespectacled, height-challenged introverts found academic excellence the same...
Jellis said her "unscientific guestimate" as tosuccess in the representative election pointed toinvolvement in extracurricular and Houseactivities as a predictor of victory...
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...