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...means a lot on big campuses that can't afford to spend hours getting to know applicants. Even at Bowdoin, hero of the anti-testing crowd, head of admissions Richard Steele has mixed feelings about other schools' eliminating the SAT requirement. "I'm not one who would recommend this for everyone," he says, noting that Bowdoin is now "highly encouraging" one growing group of hard-to-evaluate applicants, home schoolers, to submit their SATs. "It works for us because we're only dealing with 5,000 applications, vs. 20,000 at the big schools...
Some have wondered why I raised the question of the cause of grade inflation. Why not be content with pointing to the fact and not enter into dispute over the cause? That course is indeed what I would recommend to the Administration. My reason for raising the question of cause is that I believe the present regime of grading at Harvard to be untenable. Perhaps I am too optimistic, but I think that we will change. The change will come from somewhere--from faculty, students, parents, alumni, the public, if not from our deans. When we do decide...
Last week Atkinson said he would recommend that the University of California, one of the largest public systems in the country, no longer use the SAT in its admissions process. The proposal is monumental, not just because soon tens of thousands of high schoolers may no longer have to take the test to get into college but because it could fundamentally change the way the kids are tested...
Both units did pretty well at picking up satellite signals, triangulating my position and noting it on a street map--as long as I was outdoors and had a clear view of the southern sky. But it's hard to recommend one device over the other. While the Legend has by far the superior size, shape and display, the clunkier, battery-sucking Geode has better databases and expandability. I suspect the Geode will be the first to tell me where I can find the nearest Fleet Bank (and save me the fee for using some other bank...
...lets you retrace your route to your starting point. But the Legend's tiny memory--8 MB--means that for a big city like New York, you can't fit much more than street-level maps. Those are fine for finding an address, but don't expect them to recommend a good Uzbeki barbecue joint. For that, the Geode showed more promise. You can add as much as 128 MB of memory, and there are deals in place to provide all kinds of "Geo-coded" software add-ons. For now, I'm holding out for one that can point...