Word: academicization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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My high school college counselor was a strict adherent to the more is better application philosophy. This meant I not only sent each school on my list a bonus letter of recommendation, additional essay and academic paper - those were givens - but my mother unearthed our family tree from the attic...
They can, because Cornell, like other ?lite colleges, has seven applicants for every spot in its freshman class. As 1.2 million high school seniors begin the college-application process in earnest this month, competition has never been fiercer. Nor have students been better prepared. These days, kids in junior high...
The project that brought some of Harvard's biggest academic superstars to one of the city's poorest neighborhoods last night had its origins in a keynote address that Gates delivered at the United Negro College Fund meeting in Minneapolis on January 18, 1999.
The Addison show clearly chronicles Neel's evolution from a recent art-school grad (she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women), dealing with her rejection of academic training, to a confident, comfortable portraitist. Her earlier work is somewhat primitive in its calculated naivet. The tones are earthy and...
But some are discovering that the picture can sometimes be less rosy than it seems. Just ask the Harvard graduates who were hired at the end of the last academic year by MicroStrategy, a software company in Vienna, Va.--at least a dozen, one graduate estimates.