Reed is known for its mandatory freshman humanities program, for its required senior-year thesis, as the only private undergraduate college with a primarily student-run nuclear reactor supporting its science programs, and for the unusually high proportion of graduates who go on to earn PhDs and other postgraduate degrees.

He exhibited a talent for mathematics and science while in high school and took the Grinnell College freshman physics course in his senior year.

In his freshman year in high school, he submitted his first short story to a magazine, but it took two more years before one of his manuscripts was accepted.

More often than not, initiation is focused at the newcomers to marching, for example, freshman in high school / college.

* May 1, 1958: Massapequa, New York A 15-year-old high school freshman was shot and killed by a classmate in a washroom of the Massapequa High School.

While in high school, he gained journalism experience with the High River Times and the Calgary Albertan, and joined the staff of the Gateway, the University of Alberta's campus newspaper as a freshman, eventually rising to editor-in-chief there.

In all, he broke the American record for the mile four times: once as a high school senior ( 3: 55. 3 on 27 June 1965 ), twice as a college freshman ( 3: 53. 7 on 4 June 1966 & 3: 51. 3 on 17 July 1966 ), and once as a college sophomore ( 3: 51. 1 on 23 June 1967 ).

A new state of art comprehensive full-service high school, called Sierra Pacific High School opened on August 13, 2009 with 219 freshman students with the first class set to graduate in 2013.

The main public school district in Kentwood is the Kentwood Public Schools, consisting of two high schools, one freshman campus, three middle schools, ten active elementary schools, and one closed elementary school:

The district has underway a major $ 200 million capital program including construction of eight elementary schools, a freshman school, two completely renovated middle schools, and an upgraded high school with two new gyms, a new media center, six new classrooms and a new cafeteria.

Specifically, the College Board states that use of the SAT in combination with high school grade point average ( GPA ) provides a better indicator of success in college than high school grades alone, as measured by college freshman GPA.

Various studies conducted over the lifetime of the SAT show a statistically significant increase in correlation of high school grades and freshman grades when the SAT is factored in.

Students will start training while they are in their freshman year of high school.

" Ironically, Reines ’ excelled in literary and history courses, but received average or low marks in science and math in his freshman year of high school, though he improved in those areas by his junior and senior years through the encouragement of an unidentified teacher who gave him a key to the school laboratory and gave him permission to work whenever he wanted.

Due to her success in high school football, she was invited to join the Colorado Buffaloes football team as a walk-on freshman placekicker by then coach Rick Neuheisel.

He played high school football his freshman and sophomore years at Andrew Hill High School in San Jose and played his junior and senior years at Roy High School in Roy, Utah, graduating in 1977.

Yukino Miyazawa is a Japanese high school freshman who is the envy of classmates for her good grades and immaculate appearance.

A U. S. high school yearbook includes pages for all levels — varsity, junior varsity, sophomore and freshman teams — of each sport.

Unlike many other undergraduate business programs where students transfer in after their freshman or sophomore year ( University of Virginia's McIntire, Emory's Goizueta, UC Berkeley's Haas ), Wharton applicants apply specifically for Wharton during their senior year of high school.

The 2007 freshman class had an acceptance rate of 86 percent, and the enrolled freshman class had the following composition: students graduating in the top 10 percent of their high school class ( 57 percent ); the top 25 percent of their high school class ( 91 percent ); the top 50 percent of their high school class ( 99 percent ).

Universities may try to create community through all freshman reads, freshman seminars, and school pride ; however, Nathan argues students will only form communities based on the attributes, such as age and pop culture, that they bring with them to college.

However, he says this lasted approximately a month, and he joined the staff of the Daily Bruin, UCLA's school newspaper, during his freshman year.

He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15 ( Quentin Tarantino has provided contradictory information about this-elsewhere, he claimed he was 16 when he dropped out ), to attend an acting class full time at the James Best Theater Company in Toluca Lake.

At Mexia High School, Anna Nicole failed her freshman year and later quit school during her sophomore year.

After the first season, the school hired head coach Karen Balke to lead a team of all freshman and sophomores for one year.

He did not play baseball during his freshman and sophomore years at the school, choosing instead to become involved in student activism.

" Caltech students also passed out T-shirts to MIT's incoming freshman class that had MIT written on the front and "... because not everyone can go to Caltech " along with an image of a palm tree on the back.

The Residential program essentially combines with a brand new academic component, Cornerstone Engineering, where freshman engineering students not only get an overview of the engineering field ( s ) but get a hands-on experience along with it.

He is one of two surviving members of the large Democratic freshman class of 1975, along with George Miller of California.

He was a member of the freshman class along with John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Richard M. Nixon of California.

Then, on September 29, he voted to defeat the $ 243 billion military appropriation, along with other freshman Members, because it didn't contain his own amendment.

Nonetheless, Leinart was invited to New York for the Heisman ceremony, along with teammate Reggie Bush, Oklahoma's freshman sensation Adrian Peterson, incumbent Jason White, and Utah's Alex Smith.

In his third and final season at North Carolina, Felton led the Tar Heels along with fellow juniors Rashad McCants and Sean May and freshman Marvin Williams to the 2005 National Championship over the University of Illinois Fighting Illini on April 4, 2005 in St. Louis.

He attended Freeman High School in Freeman, SD during his freshman year of high school and along with his brother Ryan, was a member of the State 9A football Championship team and runner-up to the State B Basketball team.

In the University of Missouri until World War II, any freshman found on the ' quad ', the most prestigious square on campus, had to offer his ' insolent ' posterior for punishment along a paddle line formed by swatting seniors.

Osterman became the first UT freshman to be named Big 12 Conference Pitcher of the Week, for the week of February 19, a week in which she threw two no-hitters ( a 3-0 win over the University of Utah on February 13 and a 4-0 win over Southwest Texas on February 15 ); they were only the third and fourth no-hitters by a UT freshman, and Cat became only the second Longhorns pitcher to throw a no-hitter, along with Natalie King's two freshman no-hitters in 2001 ).

Holworthy is part of the Ivy Yard grouping of freshman dorms at Harvard, along with Apley Court, Hollis Hall, Lionel Hall, Massachusetts Hall, Mower Hall, Stoughton Hall, and Straus Hall.

Some notable freshman included Caroline Kessler and Elise Hinkle in the 400, Connor Aikens-Kinney in the 55 meter hurdles and javelin, Ilana Kleynerman in the triple jump and shotput, and Avery Katz in the shotput and Javelin, along with Bria Ziter in the 100 meter dash.

In 2008, the Parkersburg South Choral Department now includes, along with the concert and chamber choirs, and the madrigal singers, a new freshman chorus ( due to the integration of the 9th grade in the high school system ), and a women's chorus, Bella Voce.

A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.

While a senior at UCLA, Robinson met his future wife, Rachel Isum, a UCLA freshman who was familiar with Robinson's athletic career at PJC.

In 1765 Randolph found himself at odds with a freshman burgess, Patrick Henry, over the matter of a response to the Stamp Act.

He was allowed to practice with the team, but couldn't join the squad because the NCAA had a rule forbidding the use of freshman players.

The change initially met with a mixed reaction, especially as most freshman and sophomores were to be transferred to other schools.

Most of the students are admitted after two to three years of classes préparatoires, which correspond to two years of post high-school education with heavy emphasis on Math and Physics ( freshman and sophomore years at US universities ).

As a pitcher, he went 8-2 with a 3. 00 ERA and was a freshman All-American.

Raitt went to see Waterman, and the two soon became friends, " much to the chagrin of my parents, who didn't expect their freshman daughter to be running around with 65-year-old bluesmen ," recalled Raitt.

Also in 2008, Conway track was well represented at the state meet with Dallis Bailey winning the 800 meter state championship as a freshman.

The story line had Berg attending college as a 62-year-old widowed freshman studying under Hardwicke, with whom she had previously acted.

Shortly thereafter, a freshman member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Leopold Caspari of Natchitoches, offered the convent site as a campus for the school with the anticipated approval of the citizens of Natchitoches.

Born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Fraser attended St Thomas University where in his freshman year he played on the varsity hockey and football teams, and in his junior year was co-editor with John Brebner of the student literary magazine Tom-Tom.

" As a freshman Muir studied chemistry with Professor Ezra Carr and his wife Jeanne ; they became lifelong friends and Muir developed a lifelong interest in chemistry and the sciences.

The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50 % and has been steadily decreasing, with about 30, 000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class for fall semester 2012.

James Madison College has about 1150 students total, with each freshman class containing about 320 students.