Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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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...
...report continues, "The comparison shows that on average, the admitted non-athlete/non-legacy applicants scored more than 130 points higher on the combined math and verbal SATs than the admitted recruited athletes, and 35 points higher than the legacies...
Cambridge survived those cuts relatively unscathed--at least in comparison to other Massachusetts cities. Even so, the city officials have been forced to cut more than $5.1 million from their budgets and institute a citywide hiring freeze to help curb costs...
...most frequent comments indicating why an applicant was rejected stated that an applicant was "hookless," "not special," "standard," "flat," or otherwise "not unique in the H/R pool," and, thus, would have difficulty getting admitted. The second most frequent comment for rejected applicants was that they were weak academically, in comparison to other applicants. On the plus side, the most clear indication of positive weight which appeared to significantly increase an applicant's chance of admissions was found in comments on recruited athlete and legacy files...
...Union is none too healthy itself, but the Kremlin still has at its disposal one of the largest armies on earth and about 26,000 nuclear weapons. The end of this empire, if it touches off wider conflict, could make the carnage of World War I seem modest by comparison...