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After his father died in 1968 and his brother suffered a stroke in 1971, Gaither worked from 5 a.m. sometimes until midnight helping his mother manage the 400-acre family farm--and still maintained a near straight-A grade average...
Stanford University, often called the "Harvard of the West,"* has no problem filling its freshman class each year with straight-A students. Because good grades came so easily to these students in high school, however, many enter Stanford with slovenly and inefficient study habits. To their dismay, they discover that they have trouble handling the university's more rigorous academic demands...
Half a year after it came to light, the mystery of why a straight-A biochemistry student would forge his letters of recommendation to graduate schools remains unsolved, and the controversial experiments on which he worked have eased into inactivity...
Kelly Rupp, a straight-A senior, had taken so many courses in the PIE alternative that he could have gone to college after his junior year. Instead, he stayed in Quincy because "I couldn't learn as much in the first year at most colleges. Here I can go as far as I want...
...irony of the affair is that Rosenfeld, the son of a Lancaster, Pa., rabbi and a straight-A student, did not have to falsify either experiments or documents to guarantee his future. Dressier says that he would have been admitted to any medical school in the country just on the basis of his grades...