Word: valedictorian
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...rigorous campaign to get their daughter, Opal Mehta, accepted into Harvard University, as evidenced by the family’s game plan HOWGIH: How Opal Will Get Into Harvard. However, the Harvard Dean of Admission’s blatant suggestion during the college interview that the over-achieving valedictorian learn to have some fun spawns an equally effective yet starkly contrasted alternate plan, HOWGAL: How Opal Will Get A Life. Little, Brown, and Company reports that “the warm family story at the heart of the novel will remind readers of Bend It Like Beckham, but there?...
...play in Lincoln,” he says. He went to Lincoln, but with the arrangement that his diploma would come from Fargo South. Magura returned home to Fargo towards the end of May—just in time to graduate with a perfect 4.0, tied for valedictorian honors—but he played a second year in Lincoln before college. He spent the first half of that time taking classes at a community college, and he passed the second half working four days a week at a bowling alley—from 7 a.m. until noon, before practice...
There was only one Point scholar at the retreat under 18--Zachery Zyskowski, 17, who is in his second year at UCLA. Zyskowski came out at 13, helped start the GSA at his school and graduated valedictorian; he is far too precocious to be scandalized by a magazine or DVD. (He has watched Hedwig twice. Point executive director Vance Lancaster says the film, a cult musical about the relationship between a drag queen and a young singer, was already a favorite for many scholars. He also says it "reflects reality": "I don't see the negative repercussions to our students...
Frentz is not negative by nature. Six years ago, she was queen of the prom, valedictorian and the student voted most likely to succeed at Wakulla County High School outside Tallahassee, Fla. At the University of Florida, she signed up for ROTC and discovered she enjoyed the regimen of the military. She joined the Air Force after graduation...
...undeniable that Harvard Yard is a veritable Mecca for tourists to the New England area (particularly of the elderly and foreign persuasion), as well as any high school valedictorian-to-be looking to see what this esteemed institution is really like. Despite the frustration that comes from accidentally stepping into thousands of pictures of John Harvard, one can see how the beauty of the Yard floors visitors. Harvard College has a phenomenally pretty campus, groomed by millions of dollars of donations and maintained by an institutional philosophy of seeming perfect in the eyes of the outside world...