Their portfolios gain the kids entry to selective high schools.
Clair, now a sophomore at Bard, another selective high school.
Wattendorf, a senior at Northern Virginia's super-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, stood before prospective members of its Black Student Union in the fall and introduced himself as the club's president.
The porous version exhibited high "selective absorption and adsorption" - preferentially picking up organic pollutants and dyes out of water.
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In local markets, Kantor favors selective nominal bond longs (high conviction in India, South Africa, and Mexico).
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Therefore, I would forego adding additional risk to portfolios and instead remain opportunistic and selective and continue to add high-quality, large-cap, dividend- paying, multinational stocks from around the world.
The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who's currently in Year 8 at Colchester County high school, a selective girl's grammar school in Essex, England.
They called for all Catholic trustees to endorse a phased transition away from the use of academic selection and for all boards of governors of Catholic Schools to engage with each other during the coming academic year to discuss how to move to "high quality non-selective arrangements within their area".
That is, over the past generation the most selective schools in the country got into the habit of listing a high sticker price and then discounting that price as needed in order to fill a class.
In reality, even the apparently non-selective universities apply a form of selection by quietly putting up with very high drop-out rates.
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The most selective schools in the US could easily double their enrollment while maintaining exceptionally high standards, but the costs of greatly expanding campuses and faculty would almost certainly exceed incremental revenues.
In April and May, we felt the portfolio faced some real risks but the options market was charging high premiums for downside insurance so we had to be very selective about which risks to insure against.
Sir Peter called for "more sustained and intensive support for these high-achieving young people, so that they can gain entry to the selective universities for which they are qualified".
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