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Like his character, Updike came to Harvard as a scholarship student from a small-town public high school, where his father taught mathematics, having been valedictorian and class president. Harvard attracted him partly because of pressure from his mother, herself an aspiring writer, who noticed that most of the authors in a particular anthology had Harvard degrees...
Lander, 47, a math prodigy who learned genetics in his spare time, has always seemed a little larger than life. He was valedictorian of his class at brainy Stuyvesant High School in New York City, took first place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, graduated first in his class at Princeton and earned a Ph.D. in math as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He was teaching economics at Harvard when he started reading about DNA. "Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core," he says. "This is the kind...
...high school, Peter—class valedictorian, an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Scholar—always rose to the top. Now, without any plans for next year, his steady string of rejections has taken a visible toll. He slouches in the booth. He avoids eye contact. His speech is self-effacing and marked with anger directed toward his more successful peers. “Around all these ambitious people, you need to have a job or you’re considered worthless,” he says as he places his soup firmly back on the table...
This year’s pool also contained the lowest number of valedictorian applicants in five years. Fitzsimmons attributed the decline to the increase in schools doing away with class rank...
This year's pool also contained the lowest number of valedictorian applicants in five years...