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"I was a misfit," says Anderson, now a physics professor at Princeton University. "We didn't have high scholastic requirements for entry, and students came more or less from the patrician classes of the East Coast."
Approximately 5,200 of the Class of 1998applicants averaged 700 or above on the twosections of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), anincrease from last year's 4,500 applicants with anaverage above 700. Almost 7,800 of the applicantsscored 700 or higher on the SAT math test,according to the...
Good SAT scores, scholastic achievement, legacy status and lots of extracurriculars are the normal answers, but a good first step might be reading a pamphlet the Core Program Office this semester distributed to high schools nationwide.
In his address at this past Commencement, President Rudenstine waxed poetic about plans to physically restructure the academic departments. The lynchpins of the plan are the proposed "Bok Center for the Humanities" in the building currently, and for the greater part of this century, known as the Freshman Union, as...
The report compared the performance of Cambridge city school students unfavorably to that of students elsewhere in the state and nationwide. For example, the report said, the average Cambridge student ranked in the bottom 25 percent nationally on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).