Word: testing
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...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 Admissions Dean Walter Snickenberger, "look...
...University of Chicago has accepted Charles Jones, 18, a Negro from Chicago's Marshall High School whose College Board test scores were far below those of most incoming freshmen. But Dean of Admissions Anthony Pallett is confident that Jones, who has worked 40 hours a week as a dish washer to help support his family, "knows where he's going, and he's determined to get there...
...things, how to create things, and how to interpret things in the visual environment. For example, last fall's final exam in arch sci (next year called vis stud) 125 was a slide show of material studied in the course and only some of which were pertinent to the test questions...
Coach Bo Anderson said he was disappointed that M.I.T. did not offer Harvard as stern a test as previously hoped. "We wanted a really hard, competitive race from M.I.T., but we were still pleased with our time," he said...
...Trudeau administrations most severe test will come not on foreign policy, but over the question of the status of French Canada within the Canadian Confederation. Trudeau has taken a hard-line stance on demands by French Canadian nationalists--notably Quebec's Premier Daniel Johnson--that Canada's constitution be rewritten to confer a special status on Quebec transferring Quebec a wide range of powers now held by the Federal government in Ottawa. By opposing all such demands, Trudeau runs the risk of losing much of his remaining support among French Canadians--an ironic predicament for a French Canadian Prime Minister...