Word: senioritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classroom performance remains the best ticket to college, other qualities can also turn the trick - a wild sense of humor, a weird hobby, or almost anything that sets a student off from the ordinary. Anxious to tap un usual attributes that may not show up in a high school senior's grades or test scores, college admissions officials are relying more heavily on references from school principals and personal inter views with the applicant himself. In selecting next year's freshmen, the nation's leading universities took extra pains to seek out students who, says Cornell University...
...straight arrows in the class of 1972 will be balanced by plenty of students with something else to offer. The University of Pennsylvania found one in a senior at Massachusetts' Phillips Academy with a generally undistinguished academic record. He impressed Penn officials by mentioning in his application his deep love of sailing, which, he rhapsodized, occupies his attention "from the first wakening sail in early April to the last frostbite stint in late October." Columbia passed over applicants with stronger academic credentials to accept a practicing Buddhist from up state New York, a New Jersey student who arranged music...
...this year; it took one whole week of what Admissions Director John T. Osander called "whimsy and brutality" to fill the last 89 positions. Obviously forced to look beyond grades, many universities look well beyond. Yale actually took the initiative in seeking out Dan Shute, a bright high school senior who spends most of his free time working on his family's isolated farm in Maine. Until Yale accepted him, Dan was not even sure whether he would attend college...
...failure three times running to get accepted into Poet Archibald MacLeish's creative-writing seminar. He poured his energies into the Lampoon, the undergraduate humor magazine. At the end of his sophomore year, he met a fine-arts major at Radcliffe named Mary Pennington, two years his senior and the daughter of a Unitarian minister in Chicago. "I courted her essentially by falling down the stairs of the Fogg Museum several times," Updike recalls...
Mayor Washington was chosen for Commencement by Mrs. Bunting from a slate submitted by a Senior committee this fall. The Commencement speaker, traditionally the parent of a Radcliffe student, is the father of Mrs. Bernetta W. Jules-Fossette...