Word: springing
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Current FDO administrators interviewed, however, offered a different perspective. When interviewed last spring, the three then-current FDO administrators who spoke with The Crimson--Philip A. Bean, current assistant dean, Sarah B. Drummond, who has since left her post as assistant dean, and D.E. Lorraine Sterritt, who has left her job as associate dean--said they saw no basis for these allegations. They praised Nathans' FDO tenure--citing her work on first-year advising and her devotion...
...Philip A. Bean and Sarah B. Drummond, assistant deans when interviewed last spring, say Nathans' attitude toward students in trouble reflects "high expectations"--but not inappropriate ones...
...Drummond and Bean said in interviews last spring that they did not think Nathans behaved inappropriately by disagreeing with them...
...even if you didn't take 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...
...Each spring admissions officers amass boxes full of discarded watercolors and videotaped productions of the Music Man - and the occasional batch of brownies - all sent by students hoping such extras will increase their prospects. More often they distract readers from the real meat of the application. One Cornell applicant, Budding Author, directed readers to her "countless short stories and novellas." Though the admissions officers were impressed with the other parts of Budding Author's application, they didn't quite know what to make of her creative writing. "Well it's not quite soft porn," said a confused Walbridge. Instead...