Word: thompson
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Nearly 7000 students applied to the Harvard Law School this year, up from 5900 last year, according to N. June Thompson, director of placement and assistant director of admissions. This year's tally marks the highest number of applicants since 1982, when 7500 applied, she said...
...However, Thompson said that Harvard applicants did not show a similar rise in test scores. "I don't think the pool has increased across the top. I think it's just increased across the board," she said...
...Thompson said she thought controversy from theDalton case probably would not affect admissionsat all. If the case has in any impact, she said,it would more reduce the yield rate rather thanthe application rate. "I think students here seethe controversy as fairly healthy, even if theydon't see the decision as healthy," Thompson said...
...School generally accepts about 800students in effort to generate a first year classof 540 students, Thompson said...
...East, where low bridges and tunnels would slice them in half, but they are well suited to the teetering pass through the Sierra Nevadas and the run through the ruddy shadow of the Rockies. The California Zephyr route takes passengers past places they would normally miss -- like Thompson, Utah, where the presence of the train doubles the size of the town. And the Ruby Canyon, the throat-tightening Donner Pass. For additional company, there are bald eagles, elk, prairie dogs, deer springing up alongside the tracks at twilight as the car slides past, cameras flashing from the windows. Even...