Word: rank
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Among the things that Harvard has found out about you but will never, never tell is a little number known as your predicted rank list...
Contrary to most student belief, there are only three factors in the PRL formula--rank in class, the College Board verbal aptitude test score, and an average of College Board achievement test scores. (One misinformed student swore to the interviewer that there were "about 26" factors in the formula and that one of them was whether the student's parents have been divorced...
According to Dean K. Whitla, Director of the Office of Tests, to get a 1.4 rating a student must "rank first in a class of about 1000 and have all 800 board scores. So it's obvious that we seldom predict a boy for group...
...probably rank above the rest on the influence chart. One is Joseph Pechman, 46, the short, greying economist at the Brookings Institution, who importantly shaped the form of the tax cut and now is lobbying for a reduction in excise taxes. Pechman went to the University of Wisconsin with Heller, landed his first Government job (in the Treasury) through Heller after World War II, now frequently discusses the economy with the CEA chief. Specializing at the moment in federal-state relations, Pechman this week will hand to the President a lengthy report that recommends methods for channeling a portion...
...convention system of nominating Presidential candidates must "sooner or later" give way to "nomination by vote of the party rank and file," John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, predicted yesterday...