Word: preps
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Though students flock to Ivy League universities for a first-rate education, they may want to consider looking elsewhere when it comes to standardized testing, according to a study released last week by Kaplan Test Prep...
...President had the slightest sense of irony, he might have paused to ask himself, "Wait a minute. How did I get into Yale?" It wasn't because of any academic achievement: his high school record was ordinary. It wasn't because of his life experience--prosperous family, fancy prep school--which was all too familiar at Yale. It wasn't his SAT scores: 566 verbal and 640 math...
They may not have had an explicit point system at Yale in 1964, but Bush clearly got in because of affirmative action. Affirmative action for the son and grandson of alumni. Affirmative action for a member of a politically influential family. Affirmative action for a boy from a fancy prep school. These forms of affirmative action still go on. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Harvard accepts 40% of applicants who are children of alumni but only 11% of applicants generally. And this kind of affirmative action makes the student body less diverse, not more...
DIED. HENRY CHAUNCEY, 97, founder of the Educational Testing Service who engineered the rise of standardized testing in college admissions; in Shelburne, Vt. As assistant dean at Harvard in the 1930s, he objected to the elitist system that admitted only prep-school students. With Harvard president James Bryant Conant, he promoted the meritocratic but previously little-used SAT, now taken by 2 million students a year...
...represented the ninth congressional district in Memphis for 22 years, Ford Jr. is only one of the aggressive young politicians to emerge from a budding black political dynasty. His colleagues in the House include Chicago's Jesse Jackson Jr. (with whom Ford attended St. Albans, the prestigious Washington prep school that also produced Gore); Missouri's William Lacy Clay, whose father, William Clay, dominated the same district in St. Louis for a generation; and Florida's Kendrick Meeks, who just won a Miami district vacated by his mother, Carrie Meeks. "There were three things we had no choice about doing...