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...They're Dressy Cutoffs! Bravo to Lisa Takeuchi Cullen for her article "What (Not) to Wear to Work" [June 9]. I have distributed it to every student I train for internship placement at a college-prep high school in San Diego. Unfortunately, many students think shorts are acceptable work attire. When students come to my office in shorts for an interview, I will not proceed - at which time they try to explain that they're wearing "dress shorts"! Jill Wien Badger, Bonita, Calif...
...earns Ł105,000 (more than $200,000) a year, pays 40% to a snooty female "agent" and exchanges, ahem, services with her tax preparer. (She writes him a check and he gives her cash back, so that she can get a receipt and write off the tax-prep...
Students who like to “work hard, play hard” can now do both at the same time. The test prep giant Kaplan has recently announced it is teaming up with Aspyr Media to create a video game that will help prepare students for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). This is the latest in their campaign to “adapt [their] offerings to students lifestyle needs,” which currently involves books and graphic novels. Kristen Campbell, national director of College Prep Programs, Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, says, “We recognize that...
...development, which often translates into academic success and a willingness to debate in that battle-field of a Harvard section.BOYS WILL BE BOYSIt isn’t a secret that a certain amount of gender stereotyping occurs during high school—especially at a testosterone-jammed all-boys prep school. And this stereotyping, that is frequently exacerbated at single-sex schools, can oftentimes affect a student’s college career. Alexander M. Fuller ’10, who attended Belmont Hill School, an all-boys private school in Belmont, Mass., notes that the typical male stereotype definitely...
...when Obama was 10, Ann sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents and attend Punahou, an élite prep school that he'd gotten into on a scholarship with his grandparents' help. This wrenching decision seemed to reflect how much she valued education. Ann's friends say it was hard on her, and Obama, in his book, describes an adolescence shadowed by a sense of alienation. "I didn't feel [her absence] as a deprivation," Obama told me. "But when I think about the fact that I was separated from her, I suspect it had more...