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...Edwards graduated as class president and valedictorian of Wellesley High School and was an accomplished skier and tennis player, according to a death notice circulated by his father. A self-taught guitarist, Edwards had been learning to play the Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven,” Mangan said...
...Valedictorian of her high school class, she entered her freshman year not only looking to showcase her talents in the classroom but her athletic prowess as well...
...Cristo Rey is magical. What you see is that hope, that optimism," said Gates, who was herself valedictorian of a Catholic high school. "You've got to ask what are the principles that you see there and can they be embodied at a public school?" Bringing that kind of change to an existing public high school, she concedes, is a difficult task...
...graduate high school and that like some other guy, I’d probably be in a juvenile hall. I was never in juvenile hall. I’ve never stolen a lollipop.” Not only did Jenkins honorably abstain from lollipop thievery, he also graduated valedictorian from UC Berkeley—“You know Berkeley right? We have more Nobel laureates than you?” He jokes...somewhat seriously. And, in a true, Jenkins fashion, he returned home to confront his former intimidator. “It was simmering with violence...
...estimates of 5 to 10 homeschooled applicants per year.Cheng says homeschoolers are neither at an advantage nor disadvantage when applying. “Yes, homeschoolers are usually ranked one out of one,” she says with a laugh. “But we have so many valedictorians in the pool that it’s not [quite] delineated out for us. We treat homeschool applicants no differently from other applicants. There are no separate application requirements.”Harvard works to fill its classes with students from a variety of different backgrounds, and it appears these three...