It is 1969, and Carole Faust, one of this dexterous novel's several protagonists, becomes the first female student at a boys' boarding school in Massachusetts — "a misunderstanding that arose from a clerical error when Mrs. Graves, distracted by her embarrassing and ultimately liberating divorce, mistakenly included Carole's name in the 'Negro' acceptance pool".
If spaces do become available, they don't necessarily go to the most deserving applicants on the wait list, but to those who happen to be underrepresented in the acceptance pool — for one school it might be math majors, for another, Midwesterners.
Remember, early acceptance pools are usually full of legacies (relatives of alumni), athletes, and super-star applicants.
In the secondary analysis, the data for one of the published trials by Calverley was replaced with that from a trial unpublished at the time of manuscript acceptance that pooled the Calverley trial with new data.
There's still decidedly chilly pockets at HHS for LGBT employees, and it's time to build the leadership, acceptance, and talent pool so those employees can start creating change we can't even dream of right now.
This suggests that unless an applicant is what admissions officers call "hooked" — unless he or she is a legacy, a recruited athlete, or a "clear priority" (Wesleyan's label for nonwhite applicants) — the chances for acceptance in the regular pool are very reduced.
A reasonable person could choose to participate in an RCT because the best possible result could only come from acceptance, even if the pooled expected value of accepting the RCT is negative.
If you pool the college acceptance letters from the four captains of Columbia's boys' team last year, he said, there were acceptances from every Ivy League school except Dartmouth.
Its East Coast counterpart, University of Virginia (No. 36) saw a 28.9% acceptance from its 32,430 applicant pool.
Like so many others, I found love, friendship and acceptance among the sandy, tattered pool tables and rambling open-air rooms.
Harvard, in comparison, accepted 2,063 students out of a pool of 39,044, a 5.2% acceptance rate.
