The Stern School of Business at New York University sends its junior class -- about 500 students -- on one-week trips during spring break.
Despite being an honor student, junior class president, and a running back for his school's football team, Kenneth Chancey and his sister live on Los Angeles' skid row, an area that can typically leave teenagers impoverished or involved with gangs.
Ms. Sternlieb began advising the junior class in the spring, calling the top 150 of 464 students, one by one, to her cramped cubicle.
In recent years, about a fourth of each graduating class has transferred into the sophomore or junior class at Harvard, a fourth to the University of Chicago, and one or two students have gone to Oxford, Yale, and Brown.
As a student, he was ranked in the middle of his junior class.
A popular student, he was vice president of his sophomore class, and president of his junior class.
Hence, there is no evidence that senior students participating during afternoon test classes were biased by morning class students to whom they might have spoken (this issue did not apply to students from the junior high school who were all tested during one class period).
"JoePa class," students called it.
Much of the student body had been expelled from other schools or spent time in jail, and only thirteen per cent of the junior class last year could read at grade level.
