About 10 to 15percentt of graduates win acceptance to the city's elite high schools, said Mary Scheer, the principal.
Conversely, there are just as many encouraging tales of graduates winning jobs via social media, and several positive reasons to use it in numerous aspects of student life.
If Big Brown, or one of the other two-year-old sale graduates wins the Derby, you can look for even more attention to those sales in the future.
His graduates win scholarships to some of the city's most prestigious schools that are eager to increase minority enrollment, including Dalton, Trinity and Fieldston, as well as boarding schools like Hotchkiss and Taft.
Rob Myers, an Ohio State graduate, won the men's elite mile in 3 59.92.
That same summer, Shorter, a Yale graduate, won a gold medal at the Munich Olympics, touching off a running boom.
Ms. Davis, the Fort Worth teenage mother turned Harvard Law graduate, won rapturous applause at a news conference this week in support of abortion rights that quickly took on the feel of a rally outside the Texas Capitol.
And since actors who do other things are now in season, what about Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Mike Nichols: his "Graduate" won best direction when "In the Heat of the Night" got best picture.
Gadi, a 34-year-old agricultural science graduate, won Mashrouy in January 2014, after persuading the judges that the dried stems of the water hyacinth could be used to make tablemats, coasters, bags, purses and rope.
A number of his former students have gone on to film school, and Benh Zeitlin, a 2000 Hastings High School graduate, won the award for Best Animated Short at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
