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Consiting of ex-varsity players, former prep stars and others who just don't have the time or inclination to play Ivy League basketball yet want a better brand of play than intramurals, the Classics offer an alternative...
...Exeter are trained many years in advance on how to take the tests. Milton Academy, for example, holds SAT preparation sessions. Many other schools such as the Detroit Country Day School in Michigan have started to coach their students and others in "exam tricks." Coaching centers such as Test Prep Services, the John Sexton Test Preparation Center, and the Stanley Kaplan Educational Center, all with branches in Boston, help people who can pay the fee to improve their scores. Until recently, ETS refused to admit that coaching could improve scores on their tests, but with the recent release...
Though the graduates of the U.S.'s more than 200 law schools seem as brainy as ever, and 85% of them take seven-week courses designed to prep them for the bar, the national pass rate declined from 76% in 1973 to just 67% in 1978. Many of those who will take the test next week will be making their second or third attempt to pass-and to defy statistics that say that repeaters are especially likely to fail. Says Chicago Attorney Herbert J. Blum Jr.: "No one ever quits. If you have gone through three years...
...Carter we knew in 1976 worked tirelessly to create this image, and with surprising speed, Bush has shed his upper-class prep school heritage and established the same bland, folksy reputation. Time described him recently as "likeable, decent, a fine...
...Desaulniers is the only person on the Crimson squad that will face Princeton who did not attend a prep school...