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These angels lead me to the second difference between the two life transitions. After high school, many feel an overwhelming desire to reinvent themselves. Whether it is the degree of anonymity that college affords or the freedom of shedding off the labels that once defined us—valedictorian, snob, goody-goody, nerd—the ability to start with a clean slate is liberating. Freshman year is a veritable free-for-all, the time to be whoever we always wanted to be, whether socialite, jock, girlfriend or scholar...
...Paul showed grit from early manhood. When he went out for the Rutgers University football team, other players beat him up and pulled out his fingernails; he bore the abuse to prove his worth, and when he graduated he was a two-time All-American and the school valedictorian, exhorting his classmates to "catch a new vision." Robeson did. Four years later he was starring for O'Neill, giving the first concert composed entirely of songs by African Americans and playing the two lead roles (as a philandering preacher and his sweet-souled brother) in Oscar Micheaux's silent film...
Ranking number one on and off the field, Sabin received Most Valuable Player recognition in the east side of Washington—along with numerous pitching distinctions within her county—and was valedictorian of her high school class...
...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?...