Word: valedictorians
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...brilliant metaphor for the trajectory of our lives, concerns three childhood friends in Georgia who have followed different paths since being in high school. Kit (Zoe Saldana) took the tempting cheerleading, Mimi (Taryn Manning) is naturally the opposite (big loser) and Lucy (Britney Spears) is the straight-A valedictorian with exorbitantly large breasts. Obviously, these restless young ladies need a cross-country road trip for a dose of self-discovery to ease that angst. Think Thelma & Louise plus Friend and Hot Guy set to “Not a Girl” and “Stronger?...
...article entitled, “For Love of the Game,” unmasks the Academic Index (AI), a shockingly imprecise formula that the Ivy League uses to make sure recruits aren’t too stupid. The writer shows how a valedictorian with a 1350 SAT and a highest SAT II of 750 would have an AI of 225 (the AI is calculated by assigning a score of one through 80 to the highest SAT I score, the highest SAT II score and class rank). He mentions, casually, that the Ivy League threshold for athletes is 169, but doesn?...
...Money,” three Harvard students—Kevin E. Meyers ’02, Alex F. Rubalcava ’02 and Shaun T. Takao ’04—will face off against Ben Stein, who attended Yale Law School and graduated as valedictorian. On the show, known for its antics and frequent sexual innuendos, contestants answer trivia questions delivered by host Ben Stein. After the first round, the contestant with the lowest number of points is eliminated and Stein steps in to replace him. In the final round, Stein goes head-to-head answering trivia...
...ultimately found her way to Osseo, Minn., where she thrived in every aspect of life. Her senior year, she was valedictorian, as well as the AP and Gatorade State Basketball Player of the Year. She led Osseo to a state title in her final season, highlighted by a 34-point performance on two sprained ankles in the championship game...
Kane, who claims he never really felt his life was in danger during his CIA years, says Harvard frightened him when he first arrived. Though valedictorian of his high school class, Kane, a scholarship winner from a public school in Rockland, a town of 8800 found himself unprepared for Harvard's academic rigor. "The breakdown was 50% of private school and 50% public school," Kane remembers. "But I found that the private school gradates were so far ahead of me that I realized I was going to have to work very hard in order to maintain my scholarship...