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A Harvard freshman and his high school classmate are receiving nationwide attention for a scheme they devised to demonstrate how easy it is to cheat on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
The reason is largely economic. Parents and students think they will get a higher return on their $16,000-plus annual investment from a brand-name institution such as Yale, Caltech or the University of Chicago than from a lesser-known school. But these same colleges are trying to attract...
After all, how else to explain the fact that an estimated 13% of 17-year- olds and perhaps 40% of minority youth are considered functionally illiterate? . That less than one-third know when the Civil War occurred? That in a recent ABC-TV-sponsored survey of 200 teenagers, less than...
Yes, Harvard can do pretty much as it wants--misrepresent itself to prospective applicants and the world at large, engage in utter hypocrisy, support racist terrorist regimes, and keep its faculty segregated--and still be protected by 350 years of Ivy tradition. Harvard can also take the moral stands its...
Harvard's computer team won the Northeast Regional Scholastic Programming Contest on Saturday for the third year in a row and again qualified to compete in the international finals.