Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brings to mind only contradictory accolades: authoritative and relaxed, facile and profound. The paradigm for the style is TRB's elegantly folksy column, which invariably eschews logic and statistics to come right to the point. Even when the point is a tired one, the freshness of TRB's verbal stream brings new clarity to the matter by rinsing away all the moss and scum of confusion: "Maybe it's unfortunate, but about the only counterweight the little man has to Big Business is Big Government; the record of the century is that business has grown big first, with government limping...
Contrary to most student belief, there are only three factors in the PRL formula--rank in class, the College Board verbal aptitude test score, and an average of College Board achievement test scores. (One misinformed student swore to the interviewer that there were "about 26" factors in the formula and that one of them was whether the student's parents have been divorced...
...information from actual standings is translated by computers into curves representing the relative advantage for performance at Harvard of the whole range of verbal aptitude and achievement scores. Several curves of like derivation are drawn for rank in class to take care of the wide variance in the size of high school classes...
...variables in these three formulae. To find the PRL, the derivatives from the three are weighted in one of two proportions, depending on whether the applicant comes from a public or private school. In the public school formula, the class ranking derivative is 47 per cent of the PRL, verbal aptitude 23 percent, and the average of achievement scores 30 per cent. For private school graduates it is 48 per cent, 20 per cent, and 32 per cent...
...figures have shown that it takes a high verbal aptitude to be a good scientist at Harvard," Glimp said...