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...case for most Harvard j.v. teams, preparatory school varsity teams like Phillips Andover or Governor Dummer regularly wind up on the schedule. Of the six prep school teams the Crimson has faced this year, it has defeated only...
Members of the 657 early admits who visited Harvard last week share a part in a disturbing pattern: While matriculating freshmen will become a model of Harvard's much touted "diversity," students admitted early are more homogoneous as a group. They are more male, more Northeastern, more prep school, more white and more rich, admissions officials...
...feels suits him better than his real one. An indolent student, he routinely alters his report cards, displaying what he could have done instead of what he did not do. After re- establishing contact with his brother, a student at Princeton, he sees a scholarship at an Eastern prep school as his avenue of escape. He forges his transcript and letters of recommendation: "I wrote without heat or hyperbole, in the words my teachers would have used if they had known me as I knew myself...
...just had to do something," Doss says. He decided to create an "urban prep school," blending academics, athletics and inspiration to transform high school dropouts and going-nowhere graduates into irresistible college prospects. He focused on girls, because colleges already lavished aid on male phenoms...
Barbara Bush has been training for her new job as long as her husband has been prepping for his. The third of four children of a father who worked his way up the ladder to become president of the McCall Corp., which among other things owned McCall's magazine, and a mother happy to entertain and garden in suburban Rye, Barbara attended public and private schools. She finished at Ashley Hall, a South Carolina prep school where neglecting to wear white gloves was virtually a punishable offense. At a party in Greenwich, Conn., during Christmas break her senior year...