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Rather, say behavioral geneticists, the "non-shared" environment is where the action is. Jimmy and Johnny find different peer groups at school, or different niches in a single peer group; Jimmy becomes valedictorian, Johnny becomes trouble. What's a mother to do? Non-shared environments outside the home, not parents, get the blame in Harris' theory...
Take, for example, Hong Kong-born Yat-Ming Judith Leung, valedictorian of the class of '98 at Nova High School in Davie, Fla. Leung, a poster child for the kind of diversity and achievement sought by colleges, earned a 4.0 GPA, taking 14 advanced-placement classes, and was accepted at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, with a generous aid package from each. By her calculation, Stanford's package was the best--a mix of loans and outright gifts. Her father earned just under $30,000 last year, and she felt her family couldn't afford to contribute as much as Yale...
...pound spitfire who got tossed into the air to delight crowds at Hawaii Pacific University, which gave her a scholarship. Kelly Carneal graduated from Heath High just last month--only six months after her brother apparently killed three girls in the school's prayer group--as Heath's valedictorian. After the shooting, Michael told a psychiatrist that everyone talked about his sister, not about...
...shocked and bewildered when I got in. I could not believe I had been accepted by the seemingly unapproachable Harvard. I was convinced Harvard had made a mistake. I hadn't made any significant scientific discoveries. I didn't get a 1600 on the SAT. I wasn't even valedictorian of my high school class...
...here. Maybe I didn't deserve to get in, but I would prove that I deserved to stay. I still had time to discover the cure for cancer, I could personally find all the homeless people in the Square a job and I had one more shot at being valedictorian. But none of that happened...