Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect on law schools with rolling admissions. "Rolling admissions law schools take people at the top of the curve first, which means that they take the guy with the 800s first. If a guy who took the test in July gets placed in a holding file with a 720 score, and the law school meanwhile accepts people with higher scores from the October LSATs, the 720s guy may get lost in the shuffle," Brill said...
Harvard seniors who applied to law schools this year appear to be less upset with the nature of the change than with ETS's failure to notify law schools sooner. Linda Novak '78, who took the LSATs before the modification and received a score of 730, says she thought the skewing had probably hurt her chances for admission. "I was rejected from Harvard Law School, and I had really thought I had a good chance of getting in," Novak says, adding that the admissions office was right to stand by the students it had accepted before receiving ETS's notification...
Usually, a score is written to accompany a movie. The peculiar genius of Joe Brooks lies in his discovery that a movie can be made to accompany the score. He had an enormous, ill-deserved success doing that last year with You Light Up My Life, and now he seems determined to pursue us through another summer with more of the same...
...Johns Hopkins lacrosse team stunned two-time defending champion Cornell in the NCAA final at New Brunswick, N.J. Saturday, snapping the Big Red's record streak of 43 straight victories by a score of 13-8 to win the 1978 national crown...
...Lechat's daughter (Christine Laurent) marries his partner (Philippe Leotard) right after their first blind date. Though Lelouch is too discreet to show any of these couples in bed, he composes his own eroticism out of Normandy sunlight, knowing glances and Francis Lai's typically catchy musical score...