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However, students at top schools such as Stanford and Harvard should not be so upset. None of them are going to be passed over for those highly competitive jobs in investment banking and consulting because Harvard is now ranked third. You won't be rejected by a top graduate school because of the U.S. News list. And if prospective students are dumb enough to pick a college based on its rank in a magazine, we don't need them here anyway. Students at Harvard and other schools should eat their pride, stop complaining and concentrate on their educations...
Rudenstine did not even rank among the top earners in New England, placing ninth in the region...
...Among chimpanzees," Wrangham explains, "every female of whatever rank is subordinate to every male of whatever rank. Among bonobos males dominate only the females that rank lower than them, and females just as easily dominate lower-ranking males...
According to Tracy Kiley of the Princeton Review, many schools use a formula of LSAT scores and grades, called an index, to rank applicants, with the test often counting for up to 60 percent of the index...
...most uncertain whether that will really give him much traction. "Cataclysmic" is how a Dole adviser describes the effect of a government survey purporting to show that teenage drug use doubled from 1992 to 1995. But polls of voters taken even after that widely publicized finding still rank drugs roughly fifth among the issues that most concern the electorate (the economy is No. 1). One reason may be that people do not see among their own children and the children's classmates quite as great a surge in drug use as the survey points to. Changes...