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...Yemeni authorities. After the Khobar Towers bombing, Saudi police allowed FBI agents neither to examine the physical evidence nor to apprehend suspects, making retaliation against Iran, which Administration officials believe ordered the attack, politically impossible. The signs from the Yemeni government last week were not encouraging. President Ali Abdullah Saleh not only refused to acknowledge that the Cole bombing, and a Thursday-night grenade attack on the British embassy in San'a, might be the work of terrorists; he went so far as to declare, "Yemen does not have any terrorist elements...
...Says Don Saleh, Cornell's dean of admissions and fInancial aid: "Students should occupy leadership roles and show years of commitment. That's one way we know kids aren't doing activities just to put them on their applications." Another is to ask how many hours students spend on each activity. And in an instance where the numbers seemed high? A gimlet-eyed Cornell officer whipped out a calculator to reveal that the (unsuccessful) applicant claimed to spend 50 hours a week on after-school pursuits...
...Admissions officers say the most successful essays show curiosity and self-awareness. Says Cornell's Saleh: "It's the only thing that really lets us see inside your soul." While there's no one right formula for soul baring, there are many wrong ones. It's disastrous to write, as one Rice applicant did, of what he could "bring to the University of California." A self-absorbed or arrogant tone is also a guaranteed turnoff. Exhibit A: a Rice essay beginning, "I have accumulated a fair amount of wisdom in a relatively limited time of life." Exhibit B: A Cornell...
...dean of admissions at Cornell University, Don Saleh will have his name at the bottom of 21,000 letters this year, only 6,000 of which will arrive in fat, happy envelopes. But as the father of an 18-year-old applicant to three colleges, Saleh himself is praying to the mailbox god this year. He suggests that parents and their college applicants can help prepare themselves for the rejection process by doing some homework before the letters arrive. "Recall positive aspects of all the schools on your list--especially the 'safety schools,'" he says. "Get out the brochures...
Admissions decisions are famously whimsical and are not negotiable, though Saleh suggests that if a kid is determined to attend a school that has rejected her, she should wait a week or two, then call the admissions office herself and have a serious discussion about transfer requirements. Students who didn't get into any school can contact the National Association of College Admission Counseling www.nacac.com after May 5 for a list of colleges that still have openings...