Too bad Alex can't use the same excuse when he applies, as he is at prep school back in Massachusetts.
He got out from under the shadow of his four brothers at Prep and started to take school more seriously.
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He played quarterback at Brooklyn Prep and at Brown University, which he attended on a football scholarship.
He was the head coach at two prep programs, then the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College.
Like his four brothers before him, Plank enrolled at Georgetown Prep, a private Jesuit school in North Bethesda, Maryland, where he played football.
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Breonna Arnum, 17, a senior at Capital Prep, believes it works.
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At Harvest Prep the school year is continuous, with short and relatively frequent bursts of holiday, because that keeps learning on track and kids out of trouble.
A. admissions research at Veritas Prep, an admission consulting firm.
Gore for his part was taught at his prep school to choose the hard right over the easy wrong, which is a good lesson, assuming it's easy to tell those apart.
My most successful clients at Stratus Prep are those who start early and take advantage of this time to work closely with their counselor and me long before the MBA deadlines are looming in the fall.
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Educated in the States at Georgetown Prep, Yale and Columbia (where he earned his masters in architecture), he had season tickets to the opera in his twenties and was taken under the wing of Deeda Blair, the style icon, public health advocate and noted D.
Pendleton, 15, an honor student and band majorette at Kings College Prep School, died Tuesday after a gunman shot her at a park in what her godfather, Damon Stuart, described as an "ideal community" on Chicago's South Side.
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At Bay Ridge Prep, students who try out for the basketball team make the basketball team.
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At South Bronx Prep, the graduation rate was also higher than 90%, yet only around 15% met the college readiness criteria.
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But a nightmarish experience at a California prep academy left him scared, embarrassed and scrambling to find a new school.
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She was 15 years old, an honor student at King College Prep.
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A. admissions research at test-prep and admissions consulting firm Veritas Prep.
And at his military prep school, he and his roommate had created a case study in the difference between violating a regulation which would lead to punishment and violating honor e.g.
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Live chats, mobile apps and free tax prep at Wal-Mart Stores are in the mix this tax season, which kicks off Jan. 17, 2012, the first day the IRS will accept your tax forms.
Among schools without a policy, more than a quarter say they have checked out a student's online persona, up slightly from last year, said Jeff Olson, vice president of data science at Kaplan Test Prep, who conducted the survey this summer.
Strassler was introduced to the classics at Fieldston, a prep school in the Bronx, and again as a history major at Harvard.
Strassler was introduced to the classics at Fieldston, a prep school in New York's Bronx, and again as a history major at Harvard.
Bush grew up in Midland, but like his father, he attended prep school at Andover and college at Yale.
It may switch to Zimbra for its 18, 000 full-timers, dumping Microsoft Exchange, says Marc West, chief information officer at the tax-prep firm.
At the time, test prep was dominated by Kaplan, which had been around since 1938.
At the KIPP Believe College Prep school, teacher Scarlet Feinberg is putting her new students through their paces.
This year, Dholakia looked at the experience of Gourmet Prep Meals, a Houston-based startup, running a Groupon promotion.
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Going back to his prep school days at St.
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Also on Tuesday, an artillery shell struck inside a second U.N. school in the same town, but the boys' prep school was empty at the time, UNRWA director John Ging said.
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