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Robert Lee

Rugby Road's unfair advantage

By Robert Lee | April 4, 2002

FROM BEING allowed to form their own judiciary committee, to being treated leniently by police, fraternities and sororities always have received special treatment.

Transcript: check. Application form: check. Personal essay: check. Recommendation: well... At times more daunting than the request for grades and that ubiquitous personal statement, students cringe when they see the dreaded line - "give this faculty report form to a professor who knows your work well and can speak to your ability to meet the rigorous demands of" the-program-scholarship-school-job you're dying to get into.

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