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These statistics from the Department of Education report do: "With the exception of the athletic rating, non-legacy/non-athletes scored better than legacies and recruited athletes in all areas of comparison [SAT math, SAT verbal, academic rating, extracurricular rating, personal rating, teacher rating, counselor rating, alumni rating and class rank]. In addition, the differences...were found, in each category, to be statistically significant...
Harvard students, with our 700-plus SAT verbal scores, like to think that we speak more refined English than the rest of the country. But even we fall for colloquialisms as much as any other community. Harvard-speak is not exemplary academic usage...
...Verbal and non-verbal cues from other students and faculty tell women that they are not valued in the classroom...
Newt Gingrich, the House Republican whip, is the street-fighting man of politics. Usually he skewers Democrats, but even the bipartisan budget deal fell victim to his verbal darts. Wowed by his technique, many ambitious young Republicans are musing, "I wish I could speak like Newt." To help them, a GOP committee called gopac has distributed a brochure filled with choice Gingrich buzz words for describing one's own campaign and the opponent...
...first Western scholars fluent in Japanese, Reischauer predicted the country's potential for industrialization. His understanding of Japanese society went far beyond the verbal level, said Schwartz, formerly Reischauer's student...