Sentence examples for shine academically from inspiring English sources

Young Henry – he'd dropped the "Heinz" – soon began to shine academically; his progress to Harvard interrupted by wartime service: He spent 1945 hunting down members of the Gestapo.

Although he did not shine academically, he was good at cricket and rugby, and enjoyed attending the annual Duke of York camp with its "play the game" maxim.

Though he did not shine academically, he was good at cricket and rugby, and liked attending the annual Duke of York camp, with its maxim: "Play the game".

At Abramson, Vietnamese are one-tenth of the students body but the immigrants shine academically and have won every valedictorian and salutatorian honor for four years.

Recruiters like the event because it allows people who may not shine academically to show that they can still thrive in a high-pressure, realistic scenario.

She did not shine academically, either there, or when she moved on to her mother's old school, West Heath, near Sevenoaks, although her former teachers did speak loyally of sporting prowess, particularly at swimming.

The children started at local schools, picked up English swiftly and shone academically.

From the start, O'Faolain shone academically, winning scholarships to University College and then to Oxford.

It is essential to shine, both academically and through extra-curricular activities.

While academically you shine brightly and can boast lots of experience, you must also show you are the right person all round.

Fraud is the most likely explanation for the spectacular test score gains recorded at one D.C. public school, serving preschoolers through eighth graders, that Rhee praised as a "shining star," where the percentage of academically "proficient" students soared from 10to58percentent in two years.