Foreign students have a particular appeal, and not just because many of them have sterling credentials and make for a more diverse student body.
And students, many of whom boast sterling credentials, nevertheless often seem to have neglected to fully consider what graduate school entails.
Old friends have said that Mr. Babbitt, a Marshall Scholar who graduated from Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, had the sterling credentials to make an outstanding justice.
As the first woman to be head of a company in the Dow Jones industrial average, Ms. Fiorina, class of '76, has sterling credentials.
He had the kind of sterling credentials that make political operatives giddy: He is a former Navy SEAL who once worked with Mother Teresa.
Again and again one sees people with seemingly sterling credentials — Federal Reserve presidents, economists with Ph.D.s from good schools — propounding views that I thought were obvious fallacies, at least to anyone who had studied the subject a bit.
Mr. Bradbury belonged to the same circle as his predecessors: young, conservative lawyers with sterling credentials, often with clerkships for prominent conservative judges and ties to the Federalist Society, a powerhouse of the legal right.
He was recruited by the militants largely because of what they considered to be sterling credentials: He had been imprisoned for two-and-a-half years and tortured while in custody, his brother said.
The alternative to Kim is Okonjo-Iweala, who is not a threat to vital US interests, is a mainstream development expert with sterling credentials, and happens to be an African woman.
