Word: sat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could've gone faster, but I sat on him to see how much he had left. I think we're eventually going to run faster than we did today," Murphy said after the race. The same crew came back two and a half hours later to beat Boston College by more than nine seconds...
...times a year with the HRDC to negotiate. An advisory board, such as the present faculty standing committee on drama, should be retained as a body to which they can appeal. The Dramat has a similar advisory board made up of faculty and administrators. Yale President Giamatti sat on the board at one time. The board could not overrule the drama school administration, but it could apply pressure. "If they hadn't been around," Bailey says, "we would have been sunk...
That woman and her son are hardly the paranoid exceptions. Parents in suburban and middle-class areas across the country have been petitioning their local school boards to institute SAT prep courses as part of the normal high school curriculum. Unlike inner-city areas, where learning itself is a problem, these students allegedly receive an excellent education. In Greenwich, Conn, a wealthy New York suburb, almost half the town's tax revenue goes to schools; indeed, realtors use the superiority of the Greenwich system as a main selling point. Yet the average SAT score at Greenwich High School continues...
...Forest Hills, N.Y., parent has spent over $700 on special SAT preparation courses and private tutoring because she believes that the competition her son faces to get into an Ivy League school from the metropolitan area is extremly intense. "My son needs every extra edge he can get in order to have a chance of getting admitted at Harvard this year," she says...
However, in an attempt to placate the wrath received from high school students and their parents, the College Board (administrators of the SAT) has followed the Law School Council's lead. This fall, for the first time ever, the board published a complete sample SAT test along with explanations of the answers...