Word: prepped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the summer after her sophomore year, Lang started an SAT tutoring program in Mount Vernon, N.Y., with the goal of reaching less affluent high school students who couldn't afford classes at the major test-prep companies. When she returned to Harvard that fall, she founded a similar program, Get Ready!, in Boston...
Jeannie V. Lang '00, another member of SAC, is taking next year to expand a small start-up non-profit organization that helps under-privileged youngsters get to college. The organization, Get Ready! works with churches, schools and families to provide free SAT prep and college/financial aid advising to under-served urban high school students...
...Diversity, however, was knocking at Harvard's door. More and more, the College admitted students it previously would have turned away, and the elite day schools and prep schools that had supplied the College with students became a smaller and smaller source for admissions candidates. No longer did large groups of students who had known each other all the way through high school have the opportunity to live together...
...This correlation showed. The typical Harvard student was, even in that age of social foment, a white male who had been educated in a Northeastern prep or private school...
...However, while attempting to raise academic standards overall, they recognized many of the soldiers did not come from the same academic background as the prep-schoolers that were applying...