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Where does that leave investors? Focused on the long term and waiting patiently for the current turmoil to abate. If you're aggressive, this is the time to start nibbling at stocks that have fallen, even though they could fall further...
Those numbers only begin to address the carnage. The average NASDAQ stock is down 48%, more even than during the 1987 crash, reports Salomon Smith Barney. Thanks to relative strength in more conservative stocks, broader market measures haven't been as devastated. Still, the Standard & Poor's 500 hit a new low Thursday, bringing its decline to 13%, and the Dow, while still above its spring low, was off 14% from its high nine months...
...projected annual growth rate with its current price-earnings ratio. If the P/E is lower, the stock may be attractive. A lot of tech stocks will grow earnings 35% a year in coming years but have P/Es way above that. Cisco, for example, trades at 148 times trailing earnings even after the stock has sunk...
...even if you didn't study calculus in the ninth grade, there are steps you can take at application time to better your odds. Last spring three of the country's most selective schools--Rice University, Bowdoin College and Cornell University--allowed TIME behind the closed doors of their admissions deliberations. The one stipulation: that TIME not use the names or certain identifying characteristics of kids like Theater Boy. The insights we gleaned won't substitute for top scores and grades. But they did puncture some of the myths that often prevent an applicant from winning admission...
...school organizations who never rises to a leadership position. A Cornell applicant submitted a one-page, single-spaced addendum to his application that cataloged, as an admissions officer exasperatedly termed it, "every activity he's ever participated in." With the "spread too thin" designation on his voting sheet, even his perfect 800 score on the verbal half of the SAT wasn't enough to stave off rejection...