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A study in Baltimore and Philadelphia showed that kids who ate a free school breakfast each morning got higher grades and were better behaved than their nonbreakfast-eating peers.
On the one hand, inflated grades fail to distinguish between the merely above-average and the truly superior.
On the basis of any number of things: SAT scores and grades, of course--but also how well an essay was written; how much and what kind of volunteer work was done; notable athletic or artistic ability; a concern for geographic diversity; recommendations; or the most entrenched affirmative action program around, whether an applicant's parents went to Harvard.
A 566 verbal would not have gotten you into the Yale Class of 1968, especially with mediocre prep-school grades, if you weren't also the son-and grandson, for good measure-of a Yale alumnus.
Unconventionally gifted kids, who didn't get top grades in high school or who don't have perfect SAT scores, stand a better chance than they do elsewhere of getting in--and of being presented with the highest level of intellectual challenge.