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Thus extracurricular activities have long served as one "tip" factor in college admissions here and elsewhere, yet The Crimson seems to misunderstand how the term "tip" is used. "Tips" come into play at the point when the Committee is looking for positive reasons to admit a candidate, as relatively few of the many qualified candidates can be admitted. The shorthand terminology--"tip"--does not suggest that the "positive weight" given to a candidate can be quantified or otherwise expressed as a formula...
...first five minutes of the game was very NBA-ish. Harvard scored on two slam dunks, one layup, one tip-in follow and a baseline jumper. Asker answered with a pair of layups and two three-point jumpers...
...Department of Education found that "none of those [admissions officers] interviewed could think of, or remember a single case in which an applicant's Asian-American ethnicity was cited as the `tip' which resulted in an applicant being admitted over a substantially equal white counterpart...
Despite this revelation, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 continues to insist, quite shamelessly, that "It's very clear to us that students from Asian-American backgrounds often receive a special tip...
There are three degrees of the procedure: sunna (traditional), which involves cutting off the tip of the clitoris; excision, the removal of the clitoris and the labia minora; and infibulation, the removal of the clitoris, the labia minora and labia majora. With infibulation, the pubic area is stitched up after the genitals are removed, leaving only a single small opening for urination and menstruation...