Word: pooling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Coach Bob Leonard, bounced back from a shaky start in the fall, improving their team and individual play throughout the season. The team, led by junior co-captains Matt Dost and Kaj Vazales, had a rough outing at the opening Yale Invitational, finishing 26th in the 36-team pool. Just two weeks later, the men rebounded with a strong showing at the Toski Invitational, taking sixth place and gaining some much-needed confidence going into the annual ECAC Championships...
...What economists call the return to education has been increasing very dramatically," Lemann says. "Back in my era, the smart kid in California would go to Stanford or Berkeley. Now the smart kid...is much more likely to apply to Harvard. You have a bigger pool of people chasing a fixed number of slots in the top professional schools...
...Granted, the regular pool of applicants is probably weaker than the early pool, but can the difference really account for the almost 15 percent difference in acceptance? That's highly doubtful. But, who would blame the admissions office for accepting more students early? Despite Harvard's unusually high acceptance yield, assessing how many students to admit is one of the most difficult tasks the admissions office faces. Of course they would want to fill as many spots as possible with students who they were fairly sure would enroll in the college...
...result of this slight bias in favor of the early pool has been that students have been applying early in record numbers, forcing high school seniors to commit to schools before they truly have a chance to make as educated a decision as possible with regard to picking the right college. And with more of the decisions being made early on in senior year, students are losing the chance to show improvement during their last year in high school...
...been brought to my attention that a number of employees have participated in a betting pool in anticipation of the code name decision. I would like to take this opportunity to remind these employees that the use of federal property, including copiers, e-mail accounts and desk chairs, for any sort of gambling activity, is in violation of federal law. Please note that, contrary to rumor, contributions to the federal government investment plan do not fall under the definition of "gambling activity" under federal...