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...current and former admissions officers at these schools to tease out a justification for the numbers. As it turned out, no sweet-talking was required. Official after official went on the record for Golden on the matter. The reasons for the rejections? One Korean student, applying from a top prep school, got pegged at MIT as “yet another textureless math grind.” At Vanderbilt, a former admissions staffer offered that Asians “are very good students, but don’t provide the kind of intellectual environment” that colleges are looking...
...Cambridge Public School Committee discussed the district’s emphasis on standardized tests during a roundtable meeting between school officials and community members last night, one committee member warned that overemphasizing test data could turn the school system into a “test prep factory.” The roundtable, held to discuss possible changes to curriculum to improve student achievement, focused on the district’s Composite Performance Index. The index is calculated from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests and indicates how close the district is to proficiency in all studies...
...journey from the South Side of Chicago to the north shore of the Charles River, Patrick passed through Milton Academy, a suburban Boston prep school, which he attended on a scholarship from the organization A Better Chance...
...wild card of the election: Jewish cowboy Kinky Friedman, 61, the singer/songwriter/novelist who is trying to recreate a southern-fried version of wrestler Jesse Ventura's 1998 unlikely gubernatorial win in Minnesota. Friedman, also running as an independent, has outpolled both Bell and Strayhorn at times, but his bad prep and repetitive one-liners ("Why the hell not?" is his campaign slogan) are beginning to seem stale and tired. He has come under attack for his flip remarks, like one calling Katrina evacuees in Houston "crackheads and thugs", but he has refused Bell's calls to withdraw. "This...
...director of pre-law programs at Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, Steven Marietti, said that the comparative reading section is a “fairly significant change...