Word: yale
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...while most psychologists agree that young children can grasp very basic concepts of right and wrong well before adolescence (when they seem to ignore right and wrong), most also say those concepts aren't well developed for kids under 10. Kyle Pruett, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, illustrates this point with a test: "Tell a seven- or eight-year-old, 'Johnny broke one teacup throwing it at his sister. Sara broke eight teacups helping Dad load the dishwasher. Which kid did the worse thing?' The average seven-year-old will pick Sara because...
...hard to determine the reasons--other than revenge--for sentencing Mitchell and Drew to several years of this. "Punishment won't do anything," says Alan Kazdin, chairman of Yale's psychology department. "Punishment never teaches what to do, [and only] sometimes what not to do." Some very young kids don't even understand they're being punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these...
...only is it an elite university, but in January, Princeton announced it would begin to dip into its endowment (the nation's fourth richest, valued at nearly $5 billion) specifically to help students from middle-income families offset more of its $33,040 annual price tag. Since then, Yale, Stanford and M.I.T. have announced similar plans...
...example, Hong Kong-born Yat-Ming Judith Leung, valedictorian of the class of '98 at Nova High School in Davie, Fla. Leung, a poster child for the kind of diversity and achievement sought by colleges, earned a 4.0 GPA, taking 14 advanced-placement classes, and was accepted at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, with a generous aid package from each. By her calculation, Stanford's package was the best--a mix of loans and outright gifts. Her father earned just under $30,000 last year, and she felt her family couldn't afford to contribute as much as Yale expected...
...newfound willingness to bargain is even more likely to be found at colleges generally less successful than Yale and Stanford in attracting the most qualified students. Many highly competitive schools have begun to use a thinly disguised form of merit scholarship to land prized applicants. If your family income is not low enough to warrant a need-based scholarship but your daughter is seen as something of an academic catch, she may well be offered an additional stipend to make her decision easier. Don't hesitate...