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After graduation, Myhrum taught English in prep schools during the school year, but worked in theater in Duxbury in the summers. He became increasingly involved in theater and graduated in 1955 with a Master of Fine Arts in theater from Yale...
...Lowell faced his share of battles. According to Row, opponents of University decentralization prevented Lowell from applying the English term "college" to Harvard dorms, preferring that the term be applied only to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Eventually, Lowell settled for stylish English prep school terminology and the "House" system was born...
...Through Prep-For-Prep--a program which helps inner-city minorities prepare for preparatory high schools and college--Evans left Sound View to attend Phillips Andover Academy. Through will-power and a knack for resisting neighborhood temptations, Evans was able to embrace what he calls "positive living...
...material they examine is occasionally elementary and often irrelevant, and the skill of answering these questions under such tight time pressure is really only useful to a small fraction of those taking all the various tests. True, the tests are mostly multiple choice, can be mastered through expensive test-prep courses and probably don't reflect anything about one's potential performance in graduate school...
...California. The New York City-based Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund offers students at six historically black universities Princeton Review courses for $375--half the regular price. "In the short term," Sharlot says, "nothing could be more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course at Florida A&M, a black university; six sat for the LSAT in the fall, and five scored in the 150s--on level with the national average for whites. Christie Stancil took the course at North...