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Unfortunately, the Harvard College admissions office seems to value athletic talent more than any other achievement, skill or potential aptitude. Varsity coaches tag applicants for special consideration. The admissions office, more often than not, must then find a reason to reject, rather than a reason to accept these tagged athletes. This tagging formalizes the inflated value that the College puts on athletic success. In many cases, this system places athletic virtuosity above academic ability for a significant portion of the admitted first-year class...
...ignore athletics when making its acceptance decision, nor should it be based solely on grades and test scores. Activities outside the classroom are rightly valued by the admissions office. But athletics should be treated like any other extra-curricular activity and not given a special coach’s tag...
...think that someone other than Bush’s own party had drafted it. In fact, the Republicans put in the 2011 sunset provision themselves, partly for procedural reasons but also to keep the long-term cost of the tax cut within its advertised $1.35 trillion price tag. If the tax cuts are made permanent, they’ll cost the treasury more than $200 billion every year after 2012. In today’s dollars, that’s about how much the government spends on education, the environment, agriculture and community development combined...
Those were Yale’s only two baserunners until the seventh inning. Only Beasley advanced past first, stealing second when Mann’s throw sailed a bit too high to apply the tag in time...
...enthusiasts of the souped-up, aggressive version of tag the Bridgewater complex and its upbeat staff were worth every penny. The excursion was priced at $60 per person, including transportation, but both CI and HSS subsidized half the cost for everyone on the trip. Pre-game rituals did not include prayer; instead, the train ride was full of the gratuitous swearing and off-color jokes of the HSS men. CI sources report they were not thrown off in the least by the irreverence...