Novel Project Q4 (2)

Although Wesleyan and other colleges have adapted numerous techniques from social science to help then sift each year's freshman class, their judgments are just as often intuitive and distinct from others. (Idiosyncratic)

By then the prize that those families peer perusing, the first class private education described in the brochure for the American Dream, had become at once more accessible, and more difficult, than ever. (Elusive)

Thus the college admissions season opened each September at NACAC with all the ceremony, display, excess and anxious anticipation of the Olympics but without the primary competitors. (Pomp and pageantry)

After inherited privilege was removed as a primary cranial or elite college admission, the SAT an aptitude test that was originally intended for limited use as a screen of scholarship applications at Harvard was enlisted to fill the void, creating the foundation for the establishment of a government of the people and sending several million students a year walking fast to sharpen their no. 2 pencils. (Dislodged, meritocracy and scurrying)

Thus, the process of distributing precious seats at Ivy League and other elite institutions beach e more democratic, as did the distribution of the primary perk that usually accompanied those possessed apertures. (Coveted, slots)

It wasn’t just that more students were now graduating from high school annually, or that more minority students and students from poor backgrounds were applying to such colleges. (Impoverished)

As it became clear that money was giving some applicants an implicit advantage, jeopardizing the fledging meritocracy, the colleges began adjusting the admissions process to raise the bar that they would expect students of means to arch. (Vault)

Like their focus on the SAT and AP courses, the colleges increasing emphasis on the early decision process began further getting in on the high school experience. (Encroaching)

Soon, students as young as those on the sixth grade were reporting that the pressure of preparing for college; had become intolerable. (Unbearable)

In a hall illuminated by artificial skylights and decorated with giant pastel flowers, representatives of nearly 450 colleges stopped shoulder to shoulder behind long rows of tables that seemed to go on forever. (Faux)

They dared to approve only a fraction of the endless series of opportunities that are presented to them in rapid-fire succession. (Deign and pitches)

His voice was as soft and caring as a pediatrician’s. (Soothing)

She had not faded away from the spotlight. (Shied)

The administrators of those institutions had helped win her a job at a prep school that was regarded as one of the best in the country. (Imprimatur)

To house it’s college counseling office, the school had attached a glorious, glass-roofed room to it’s administrative building. (Annex)

But that was before the civil rights movement had helped force many of those institutions to eliminate restrictions and open their doors to non-white applicants and before the women’s rights movement had succeeded on most male-only colleges to admit women. (Quotas and prevailed)

The resulting rule by collages to draw the best applicants out of those fresh pools only intensified the mid 1970s. (Frenzy)

“I want to assure you, Ralph,” the person said. “It had nothing to do with the event. (Dope)

Wesleyan was always significant to admit someone with C’s and D’s. (Reluctant)

And he was eager to be a part of the sophisticated Wesleyan film program. (Vaunted)

Ralph would also have the title of assistant director of admission, several ladders above entry level. (Rungs)

Many of these modern rich parents had themselves been educated at the nations finest public universities. (Nouveau)