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...Grant's case this is especially true. Grant has repaid her debt to society. She served six months in a juvenile corrections facility and tried to move on with her life by moving here from South Carolina. Grant was a straight-A student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. She was a member of the Academic Decathlon team and the honors society, and co-captain of the tennis team--in short, a superior candidate for early admission to Harvard...
South Carolina Judge Marc Westbrook, who presided over the trial and sentencing, then allowed the orphaned 14-year-old to relocate to Cambridge, where her aunt and uncle lived. After all she had endured, Grant became a popular straight-A student at Rindge, captaining the tennis team and tutoring underprivileged children. Earlier in the academic year, she applied to Harvard and was admitted. That should have been the end of a wonderful, beat-the-odds story...
...founded your own multi-thousand dollar business when you were ten. You managed a straight-A average in economics while rising to the top of the ever-corporate-minded Harvard Student Agencies. During summers you interned at Anderson Consulting and spent the remaining 20 hours a week serving food in a shelter, fulfilling your "I'm a real human being with real feelings; I do community service" requirement...
...quartet -- Stipe, Mills, guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry -- met in Athens in the late '70s. It was not altogether friendship at first sight. "We were definitely in different camps in school," says Berry. "((Mills)) was kind of the nerdy, preppie, straight-A student who hung out with the other straight-A students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe...
...straight-A student, 17-year-old Luke O'Neil gets a 10% discount at his high school store in Kingston, Massachusetts, and free admission to all class dances and athletic events. This summer his marks will fetch him discounts and freebies at local pizza parlors and candy stores...