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By Holly BowenDaily News staff writer

Olivia Hollenhorst’s goal is to be a leader in life, and her experience at Moscow High School has given her a good head start.

As student body president at MHS, Hollenhorst, 17, is already well-versed in meeting protocol and working with a variety of organizations with differ-ent views and goals.

She’s been co-captain of the varsity soccer team and represented Moscow students when she participated in the new superintendent selection process this spring.

“I like working with people, making policies and finding the best solutions to problems,” she said.

Hollenhorst has been involved in Associated Student Body for the past two years. She said her job involves writing agendas for meetings, helping to plan activities and working with student organizations.

She said the ASB budget is separate from the Moscow School District’s bud-get, and the student government tries to give as much money as possible to support clubs.

She said she enjoyed participating in the superintendent selection process. Hollenhorst’s role was to ask three finalists about student relations and

student activities during interview ses-sions that were open to the public. The Moscow School Board eventually chose Moscow Junior High School Principal

Dale Kleinert for the job.“I really enjoyed having the opportu-

nity to be there, because it’s usu-ally the side of things stu-dents don’t see,” H o l l e n h o r s t said. “Usually we just see the consequences of what happens.”

A native of Morgantown, W . V . , H o l l e n h o r s t moved to Moscow when she was 7 years old because her father got a job at the University of Idaho. Her mother works at McDonald Elementary School, so education is a natural endeavor for her, she said.

She said she hasn’t made a final decision about where she will attend college this fall, but she wants to study international nutrition and public health.

Her family spent last June driv-

ing around the country, staying with family members and checking out 17

different univer-sities and col-leges. That tour led her to narrow her choices down to Oregon State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She said she wants to be remembered at MHS as some-one who can be counted on,

“someone who is responsible and com-petent,” and she advised district and school administrators to continue “solid communication” with students.

“If the students don’t know what’s going on, they can’t help fix the prob-lem,” she said.

Holly Bowen can be reached at (208) 882-5561, ext. 239, or by e-mail at [email protected].

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Forrest Dickison of Logos School has sketched out a draft of his post-high school plans, and it involves taking a different path than the one he’s become accustomed to.

Dickison, who turns 18 on Sunday, has lived in Moscow all his life and plans to stay there for four years of college at the University of Idaho, where he will join one of his older brothers.

That’s a big change for him because he’s attended Logos, a small, private classical Christian school, since he was a kindergart-ner. Transitioning to a massive, public uni-versity will allow him some more freedom and experiences that he says he is looking forward to.

That’s opposed to attending New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, which is where his other older brother goes to school.

“It’d be kind of like Logos, but college,” Dickison said. “I wanted something differ-

ent.”At the UI, Dickison is planning to major

in art and design. He said he likes to draw concept and graphic art, such as graphic novel illustrations.

“I have a lot of fantasy characters,” he said. “I like drawing people.”

He said he ordered a new Mac computer for his graduation present and is looking forward to creating art on it with programs like Adobe Photoshop. He said he’s seen a bit of what’s available for art students at the UI and is looking forward to new oppor-tunities.

“It’ll be fun since I’m majoring in art and will be able to use the new technology and stuff, like Photoshop,” he said.

Dickison’s plan is to attend the UI for four years before transferring to a “real art school,” perhaps in Seattle or Portland, he said.

He said he’s never really taken any

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Forrest Dickison draws

an aquatic scene from a photograph, at his home in Moscow.

Dickison will graduate from

Logos High School May 29

and plans to major in art at the University

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By Yesenia AmaroDaily News staff writer

Rebecca and Steve Holmbo had never been separated from each other, but they decided to take different routes when deciding what college to attend.

Rebecca, 18, will be attending Washington State University in the fall, where she plans to major in engi-neering. Her twin brother, Steve, will go to the University of Idaho, where he hopes to major in molecular biology.

“We are still going to be close,” Rebecca said. “We are still going to be living with our parents. We’ll talk about our classes, I’m sure.”

The twins, who consid-er themselves to be “best friends,” graduated from Pullman Christian School on Friday.

Rebecca said she wants to major in engineering because she likes math. But, she said, she might change her mind because she also likes medi-cine.

She might attend medical school in the future.

“I’m pretty sure I’ll change what I’m doing,” she said. “I really like to help people. I really want to go on medi-cine trips to third-world coun-tries.”

Steve said he chose to go

into the field of molecu-lar biology because he “wants to make medi-cines.”

“That’s the plan,” he said. “ ... That’s my start right now.”

He said his passion for what he wants to do began with his biol-ogy and chem-istry classes.

“I really, really enjoyed

doing stuff like that,” he said. “I like the mix.”

As Rebecca and Steve get ready to embark on their col-lege career, both said they will miss certain aspects about their high school.

Steve said he will miss his friends and the simplicity of Pullman Christian School.

“Everything is in one build-ing,” he said with a laugh.

Rebecca said she will miss playing sports.

“I know I’m not going to go play sports in college,” she said.

Steve and Rebecca said one

Pullman Christian twin students, best friends heading to different colleges

Parting ways for the first time

By Chelsea BannachFor the Daily News

For most students, drop-ping out of high school means the end of many opportunities, but for Cassandra Tout, it was merely a bump in the road.

Tout has always earned As and Bs, but her grades took a turn for the worst last year when she became distracted by problems at home.

“My mom kind of had a downfall,” Tout said. “She just kind of lost her job, got into some bad things, and we just kind of lost contact for awhile.”

Because of the issues she was having at home, Tout and her younger brother had to move in with Tout’s boy-friend’s mother. Tout took on the responsibility of caring for her brother while finishing her senior year of high school.

“I’ve been emotionally test-ed because I’ve had to think of him over myself,” she said. “It was kind of tough, but eventu-ally I just kind of got used to it.”

Now, she is not only going to earn her high school diploma

from Paradise Creek Regional High School, an alternative school is Moscow, but also is well on her way to becoming a certified nursing assistant.

“I’ve always been really protective of my brother and sister,” she said. “I’m the kind of person that wants to please everyone before myself.”

Tout always knew that she wanted to go into nursing or veterinary medicine — one of her favorite activities is walk-ing her dog, Pugsley. She

wanted to take care of others.

“It’s just something I thought about doing since I was little,” she said. “Since I knew what a job was.”

Tout will become a certi-fied nursing assistant once she passes the last of three tests.

Because of the emotional stress she was suffering, Tout’s grades continued to slip [[[after she transferred to PCR]]]. Two weeks before the end of the last school year, she stopped attending class. She did not think she would be able to sal-vage her grades in time.

That summer, she spent a great deal of time thinking about what she wanted to with her future. She wanted to fin-ish school, but also knew she had a lot of responsibilities to take care of at home.

She thought about getting her G.E.D, but felt like she was selling herself short, so she decided to go back to Paradise Creek Regional High School as a full-time student. She wanted to earn her diploma and pursue her lifelong goal of taking care of others.

“The biggest challenge I had

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Cassie Tout, shown here with her dog Pugsley, will graduate from Paradise Creek Regional High School on Thursday.

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David Liu said he is glad he was able to accomplish all his goals during his high school career.

“I pretty much did every-thing that I wanted to do,” he said. “Getting into a good col-lege was a big one.”

Liu, who will graduate from Pullman High School today, had to choose between Yale Univers i ty and Harvard University.

He choose Harvard.

“My cur-rent career plans have to do mostly with international affairs,” he said. “The stron-gest (university) in dealing with establishing connections was Harvard.”

Liu said he wants to study science and humanities.

“Science and humani-ties would give me a strong resume to back me up,” he said. “Combining the two

would make the best use of my abilities.”

Liu said he would like attend law school after grad-uating with his bachelor’s degree from Harvard. He said he is still not sure of what exactly he would like to do as a career.

Liu said an option that he has in mind is becoming an international science lawyer.

For exam-ple, he said, there’s a lot of issues r e g a r d i n g rights with n a n o t e c h -nology and that’s where an interna-tional science lawyer could come into play to try to figure out those right issues.

“ O t h e r poss ib i l i ty paths could

be something like (working with) space policies,” he said.

He said having a good sci-ence background would “give him an advantage over other lawyers.”

Liu said he became interest-ed in working in international affairs after volunteering at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and

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Heidi Eimers went from knowing everyone in her hometown of Potlatch to know-ing no one in the faraway land of Poland.

Eimers, 18, is graduating from Potlatch High School today after spending all 13 years of K-12 in the district.

“I know everybody in the schools,” she said. “Everybody knows everybody.”

That all got turned upside down when she spent her junior year in Poland as an exchange student sponsored by the Moscow Rotary Club.

Eimers said she was mostly on her own in Poland, where she felt most comfortable in English class. She said many of the natives were too nervous to speak with her otherwise.

“Nobody really checked up on me to make sure I was going to school,” she said.

Still, Eimers was immersed in the Polish culture, stay-ing with three different host families over the course of the year.

“You’re not just seeing how one family lives,” she said. One of those families even took her to Egypt, where she learned how to scuba dive. She also toured more than 10 European countries.

Eimers caught up with her coursework this year by taking

both junior and senior level classes in addition to online courses through the Idaho Digital Learning Academy.

She said taking online classes is strange because a year’s worth of material is cov-ered in about a dozen weeks, and “it’s weird not having a teacher there to instruct you.” She also said it’s a challenge to motivate oneself to study when television and the rest of the Internet are just a button click away.

Eimers plans to attend Spokane Falls Community College this fall, and she has interviewed for the selective audio technology program. She said she won’t find out

if she’s been accepted into the program until later this month.

“I’m passionate about music,” she said. “I want to be part of the process of making music, but I’m not so good at performing.”

She said she would eventu-ally like to work in a music studio or open her own concert venue.

She said she hopes to be remembered at PHS as some-one who is friendly and help-ful.

“I’ve just kind of been one of those kids who gets along with everyone,” she said.




Aryssa Laubach will help reroof a couple of buildings in Portland during the summer before heading to college in the fall.

This is not the first time, Laubach, 17, has helped oth-ers. Laubach, who graduat-ed from Colfax High School today, has been a part of a youth group that gets involved in missionary work every summer through the pro-gram World Changers. The program provides Christian youth and adults with oppor-tunities to meet the physical and spiritual needs of others through practical learning experiences, according to its website.

Laubach’s youth group will not participate in the World Changers program this year. Instead, the group decided to come up with its own project in Portland.

“We are working on a church and a nursing home,” she said. “It will be a 10-day trip.”

Laubach said working on mission projects is always a rewarding experience.

“It’s just nice to work hard and see the benefits of your

work,” she said.

Last year, Laubach went on a two-week mission trip to Guatemala, where she worked at an o r p h a n a g e

and did construction work at a local village and mis-cellaneous work at a school. She has also done other mis-sionary work within the U.S. in Wyoming, California, and Utah.

“I really want to do more kind of stuff like that in the future,” she said.

But only when time allows, since Laubach will be attend-ing college in the fall. She said she hopes to attend The Art Institute in Seattle, but her backup plan is to attend Spokane Falls Community College.

Laubach will study pho-tography.

“I really enjoy the field of photography,” she said. “I just like the fact that I’m able to create something other peo-ple can enjoy. I like being able to arrange things and make a

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Katie Becker will join her older brother, Andy, and sister, Christy, at the University of Idaho when she becomes a student there in the fall.

“That’s the most financially respon-sible school that I could have chosen,” said Becker, 18, who was looking at three different colleges.

Becker, who graduated from Colton High School, said the UI already feels like home.

“I know the campus,” she said. “It’s kind of like home. It’s so close.”

Becker said by going to the UI there will be no traveling costs, and stu-dent fees are affordable. Also, her older brother and sister are there.

“That’s another reason to stay close,” she said.

Becker hopes to major in landscape architecture. She already has had some hands-on experience in that specific field and really enjoyed it.

She has been working at Thorn Creek Native Seed Farm in Genesee since the summer of her eighth-grade year. Through her work, she’s learned about native plants and plants that don’t require a lot of water.

Becker recently incorporated the knowledge she’s gained by working at the farm on a relandscaping project. She decided to relandscape an area around the church she attends, St. Gall’s Roman Catholic Church.

“It looks really great,” she said. Working at the farm also has made

her a more responsible person and helped her save money for college, she said.

“I don’t want to depend on my par-

ents to buy things” for me, she said. “It keeps me on my toes. ... It teaches me to be responsible.”

Becker wants to find a job in the local area after she graduates from col-lege. She wants to help make some of the local areas greener.

Becker said she also has a project in mind that she would one day like to accomplish.

“Once a year ... I would to go to small communities and I would create a small (landscape) project for each one,” she said.

Landscape architecture is not Becker’s only passion — she also likes to sing.

“I grew up singing before I started walking,” she said with a laugh.

Some of her accomplishments dur-ing her senior year were singing the national anthem during sporting events

at the high school and being named the FFA president.

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formal art classes except for the independent study in drawing he completed this year.

“I’ve just been doodling my whole life and transferred it over to real art,” he said.

Dickison also played basketball and partici-pated in track and cross country during his time at Logos.

He said school comes easily to him, and keep-

ing up with his classwork was never much of a challenge.

As far as future career goals, Dickison said he’s not totally sure where he’ll end up, but he wants to continue his passion for art.

“I’d like to maybe work for some kind of video game company, drawing concept art, or doing storyboards for Pixar,” he said. “Something like that.”


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of their biggest accomplish-ments during their last year in high school was maintaining good grades. For Steve it was

getting straight As, while for Rebecca it was maintaining a 3.99 grade point average.

“That was rough,” Rebecca said.

But she didn’t give up, and that’s a message that Rebecca and Steve would like to share with the younger students

at the Pullman Christian School.

“Don’t lose motivation, even if your friends are lacking it,” Rebecca said.


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was making the choice to go back to high school,” she said. “I was lucky PCR accepted me back and gave me the sec-ond chance I needed.”

Though Tout and her brother are still living with her boyfriend’s mom, they have regained contact with their own mom, who has got-

ten her life back on track.Tout said she is excited

and nervous to graduate and move on to the next stage of her life.

“It feels pretty good,” she said. “I mean, its better than where I was and how I felt then. It makes me pretty proud.”

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Courtesy photoColton graduate Katie Becker (right) and her coworker Anne Veseth are shown here at Thorn Creek Native Seed Farm.

at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. He said he is the only minor who has worked at two separate Olympics.

“All those experiences added up ... working with people from all over the world,” he said.

Liu said he will be departing Pullman at the end of August to attend pre-freshmen orienta-tion at Harvard. He said this will be his first time leaving town for an extended period of

time. “I’m pretty excited,” he said. “I love Pullman,

but I figure it’s time to see other parts of the world. I’m looking forward to the bigger city and ... the opportunities that it has academically and recreational.”

He said he also is looking forward to the new fresh start.

“I think the fresh start is an opportunity to maybe correct some of the mistakes that I maybe did in high school,” he said.


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At 6-foot-5-inches, it’s obvi-ous that Clayton Schultz and basketball are a natural fit.

But the Troy High School senior said he’d rather be remembered as a student first and an athlete second.

“I’d like to be remembered as a student-athlete, not an athlete-student,” he said.

Schultz, 18, has lived in Troy since he was in the first grade. Prior to that, he lived in Colton and Deary and attended kindergarten at St. Rose’s Preschool in Moscow.

He’s staying in the area after graduating from Troy to attend the University of Idaho, where he will live in the dorms with one of his friends.

“My favorite subjects are science and history,” he said. “My mom has a Ph.D. in bot-any, so I kind of grew up next to that. And I like learning about the history of the U.S. and different countries.”

He said he’s going to focus on his studies at the UI rath-er than continuing along the path of basketball, which he said is a different level of

competition in college. He also said balancing activities and s c h o o l w o r k in high school was sometimes a challenge, but his senior year was easi-

er because he had more time to complete homework.

Schultz said he hopes to eventually earn a master’s degree in hydrology.

“My mom’s boyfriend works at Exxon as an explo-rationist, and he’s been talk-ing to me about hydrology,” Schultz said. “That sounds pretty interesting.”

Even though it’s not one of the most popular industries right now, Schultz said he would like to someday work for Exxon or another oil com-pany.

But right now he’s spend-ing his summer painting apartments in Pullman and looking forward to an annual trip to visit his grandmother in California.


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Troy student-athlete is ready for the big time

By Cheslea BrannachFor the Daily News

Each day, Erin Ghigleri manages a schedule crammed with a throng of activities, and she makes it look easy.

“Basically, my high school career has been ruled by extra-curricular activities,” Ghigleri said.

Ghigleri, who is the valedic-torian of her graduating class, participated in every extracur-ricular activity Genesee High School offered, and did it all while maintaining a 4.0 GPA.

“I’ve always cared about my grades, but it wasn’t some-thing I ever really had to try at,” she said.

Prior to graduating last week, she was involved in Idaho Drug Free Youth, French club, band, choir, Business Professionals of America and The National FFA Organization. She also played softball, basketball and volleyball.

“A lot of people were involved in all those things, but no one else has done it and gotten a 4.0,” she said. “So, I’m pretty proud about that.”

Even though she did not have a lot of free time, Ghigleri said she would not have had it any other way.

“I figured going into all those clubs ... would make me a more well-rounded person,” she said. “I wanted to give everything a try and I ended up loving all of

it, so I stuck with it all.”Ghigleri, who has been play-

ing softball since she was four, will spend her summer play-ing in the Amateur Softball Association with the Northwest Bombers.

Next fall, she will start pursuing her undergradu-ate degree at Whi twor th University, where she also will play softball. After earning her b a c h e l o r ’ s degree, she hopes to go to medical school at the University of Washington.

Ultimately, Ghigleri wants to become an anesthesiologist.

“Science and math came nat-urally to me, so I really wanted to continue down the medical side of things,” she said.

Even though Ghigleri seemed to manage her busy

schedule with ease, her high school career was not without hiccups. The summer before her senior year, her parents went through a divorce.

“People’s parents get divorced all the time, but it hit me pret-ty hard,” she said.

F o r G h i g l e r i , though, the divorce was just a small setback. Now, she is ready to move on to her future endeavors , she said.

“I’m pretty excited,” she said. “I get to start a new chapter of my life. I get to start becoming the person I’m going to be for the rest of my life.”


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photo out of it.” Laubach said she is looking

forward to learning more about photography. She said she still doesn’t know what kind of spe-

cific photography she would be interested in doing for a living.

“It kind of depends on what kind of aspect about photogra-phy I like the most,” she said.


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Emily Boone knows what it takes to not give up.

Two years ago, on Jan. 16, a day before her 16th birthday, Boone was diagnosed with Long QT syndrome.

The syndrome is a cardiac disorder that can cause sudden death in children and young adults, according to Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation’s web site, FADS.org. The syndrome is treatable, and some patients need surgery or an implantable device.

“The biggest challenge of all was letting people know,” Boone said. “Now I want to spread awareness about it because I didn’t even know it existed.”

Boone, who will graduate from Garfiled-Palouse High School today, had a pacemaker implanted to help regulate the beating of her heart. She said batteries for the device need to be replaced every five to 10

years. Boone takes a pill everyday as part of her

treatment. She also had to limit her physical activity, which was hard for her because prior to being diagnosed she was very active in sports.

She played basketball and volleyball, and also participated in track.

But that didn’t discourage her— instead, she found alternatives to stay involved.

“My main goal was just to stay involved and not quit. I wanted to keep going,” she said. “…This year I still wanted to be involved so I did cheerleading. Last year, I coached basketball to stay involved.”

Boone said things could always be worse.“The hardest part is that you are not

the only person having problems,” she said. “Things could always be worse, no matter what.”

Boone said she is thankful that her family, friends and people at Palouse High School have been very supportive.

Boone will move to Hawaii in mid-August. She will attend the University of Hawaii at Hilo, where she plans to major in biology.

After graduating with her bachelor’s degree, she wants to return to Washington to attend Spokane Community College and become a cardiac technician.

Boone said she never thought of this career path prior to being diagnosed with the cardiac condition. She said she decided to go in this direction because she would be able to better understand her

patients.“Having a connection with

my clients, I think (it’s) very important,” she said.

Boone said her bachelor’s degree in biology will give her a broader background in the sciences before entering the cardiac program.

For now, Boone said she is looking forward to becoming a student at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

“I’ll branch out and meet new people,” she said. “ … I didn’t know I could pass on

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Living her life to the fullest

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HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — One of the Huntington High School students fea-tured in “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” will attend college for culinary arts.

Robert Redman, who grad-uates Saturday, starts class-es at Sullivan University in Louisville on June 28. He said he is pursuing a dream that started long before famous British chef Jamie Oliver invaded Huntington last fall.

“When I was 11 or 12, I started making toast and breakfast,” Redman said. “After that, I started playing football in middle school. I’m the big-gest dude out there telling my coach I want to be a chef.”

Redman said it all clicked during his freshman year when he took a food prep course. He took classes every year, and when word of Oliver’s televi-sion series reached his school, a number of people told him he should audition.

The six students who appeared on the show were chosen from among about 100, he said.

But things didn’t turn out the way he thought they would. He said a lot of students who auditioned, including those cho-sen, told stories of how obesity and poor eating habits touched their families.

He didn’t have that story. The only heartbreaking tale he could tell was about how

his house burned down last August. But Redman didn’t share that with producers.

“When I auditioned, I didn’t emphasize my house blowing up,” he said. “I didn’t see how that had anything to do with eating. I was an athlete who used to eat fast food all the time. That’s the story I shared with people.”

During filming, Redman said he worked with Oliver as much as anyone. But he said people only remember the kitchen scene where he leaves for a little while for his football team’s walk-through the night before a game.

“They knew weeks in advance that I had football practices,” Redman said.

In later episodes, Redman is seen in the high school caf-eteria really drumming up sup-port for Oliver’s foods.

“I told Jamie I had his back, but he didn’t have mine,” he said.

After filming wrapped up, Redman found out that the three girls who were selected were offered different packag-es. One was offered a personal trainer to help get her weight under control. The two others were offered opportunities to attend culinary school in the United Kingdom if after a year they indeed wanted to pursue that as a career.

“I didn’t know what else to do to prove that I wanted to be a chef and open a restaurant,” he said.

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NEW YORK — Why don’t most students’ SAT scores dra-matically improve the more times they take the test?

A. They don’t study hard enough.

B. Their parents don’t enroll them in fancy test-prep classes.

C. Most kids who take the SAT twice simply do not see large improvements in their scores.

The correct answer is C, according to the College Board, the nonprofit organi-zation that administers the SATs. And here’s the latest development in the debate over whether kids can dra-matically improve their scores: The Princeton Review company no longer claims that its “Ultimate Classroom” SAT test-preparation course can boost SAT scores by 255 points.

The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, which examines accuracy in advertising, announced May 12 that The Princeton Review would “voluntarily discontinue certain advertising claims, fol-lowing a challenge by Kaplan, Inc., a competing test-prepa-ration service.”

High school students and their parents are often bom-barded with SAT test-prep solicitations as they approach the college application pro-cess. Test-prep offers come in the mail; they’re sent home by schools, and they’re not cheap. (The Princeton Review’s “Ultimate Classroom” course costs $1,199 in New York City.) When students take these courses and don’t see their scores improve, parents may wonder if their kids stud-ied enough or if they’ve wast-ed their money.

Last year, the National Association for College Admission Counseling

released a report concluding that test prep courses have minimal impact in improving SAT scores — about 10-20 points on average in math-ematics and 5-10 points in critical reading. The NACAC report noted that this evidence is “contrary to the claims made by many test preparation pro-viders of large increases of 100 points or more on the SAT.”

Kathleen Steinberg, a spokeswoman for the College Board, says that on average, students who take the SAT test twice only “increase their scores by about 30 points.”

She added that “the College Board does not recommend taking the SAT more than twice, as the College Board does not rec-ommend tak-ing the SAT more than twice, as there is no evidence to indicate that taking the exam more than twice increas-es score per-formance.”

P a r e n t s might also be surprised by actual average SAT scores: 501 in critical reading, 515 in math and 493 in writ-ing, according to Steinberg. (The highest score you can get on any section is 800.)

Kaplan charged that The Princeton Review’s claims of score jumps were based on comparing the results of Princeton Review “diagnos-tic” tests with students’ self-reported scores on actual SAT exams, as opposed to actual before-and-after SAT scores.

Scott Kirkpatrick, president of the test-preparation servic-es division of The Princeton Review, said that the compa-ny had been planning to shift away from an emphasis on score improvement indepen-dently of the Better Business Bureaus case, and that it is changing its focus to offer a more personalized approach to helping students improve in all areas.

“Score improvement is not our core mission,” he said. “I don’t want us to be a test-prep

company. We need to be an education company.”

Bob Schaeffer, public educa-tion director for The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, is a longtime critic of both the SATs and the test-prep industry. He thinks most test-prep companies “grossly exaggerate the claims on how much test scores rise on aver-age,” but he also disagrees with the NACAC report’s con-clusion that test prep has a minimal effect. He said that 15 years ago, his organization looked at all the studies that had been done on the subject and found that “good coaching can increase scores between 100 and 150 points.”

He also had some practi-cal advice for parents and high school stu-dents with SAT jitters. He recom-m e n d e d taking a free sample SAT test online to get a sense of where your b a s e l i n e score falls, and he said the College Board’s own

test-prep books and online course offer good preparation for the test as a low-cost alter-native to an expensive prep program. (The online course is $70, the book is $22 at CollegeBoard.com.)

He added that there are tricks for doing well on the test that a good coach or the College Board guide can impart. For example, know that questions in sections typ-ically go “from least difficult to most difficult, so that an obvi-ous answer at the beginning of a section is correct, but an obvious answer at the end of a section is probably a trick.”

And complete as many questions as you can, because while you get one point for each multiple-choice ques-tion you get right, you only lose a quarter-point if you get a wrong multiple-choice question wrong. You get no points subtracted for incorrect answers to math questions where you supply the answer.

Most students don’t increase scores by taking test many times

SAT prep company stops claiming boost

“ ... There is no evidence to indicate that taking the exam more than twice increases score

performance.”Kathleen SteinbergThe College Board

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Internet cafes close ahead of exams in ChinaTeenagers tempted by

computer games when they should be studying for the national college entrance exam this month won’t have anywhere to escape to in cen-tral China, where Internet cafes have closed.

High school seniors gearing up for the massive national college entrance exams in Linchuan in China’s central province of Jiangxi have been able to focus only on studying now that all of the town’s Internet cafes have closed, said an official with the Linchuan culture affairs bureau, who refused to give his name as is common with Chinese officials.

“During this critical period, our goal is to create an educa-tional society for students that is free of distractions,” the official said. “Besides Internet cafes, there’s not much else in town the kids can waste time with.”

Each year, millions of stu-dents take the two-day test on a wide range of subjects,

which is the sole determinant of their entry into university. Only about 25 percent of them get into university and the vast majority of those who don’t make the cut go straight into the work force.

This year, about 9.5 mil-lion students are expected to take the exam Monday and Tuesday, a slight dip from 10.2 million last year, according to a report posted on the website of the Communist Party newspa-per People’s Daily.

The immense pressure — which families share, often waiting anxiously at hotels during exams — has prompt-ed Ministry of Education offi-cials to consider reforming the generations-old tradition.

China announced plans earlier this year to allow students to take subject-spe-cific tests and introduce other measures besides the exam, such as considering leadership and volunteer experience, to ease the stress the students undergo as they compete for coveted spots in colleges.

PARKERSBURG, W. V.

Student aces ACTA Parkersburg High School

junior has scored a perfect 36 on the ACT exam.

Tyler Morrison achieved the perfect score on his first try despite the odds against him.

Morrison said the exam came just as he and his family were returning home from a trip during spring break.

“I took it Saturday morn-ing, against my parents’ wish-es,” he said. “I had done some studying, but not enough to expect anything.”

“I said, ‘You’re not going to be well-rested. It won’t go well,’ “ said his mother, Debbie Morrison. “I guess he proved me wrong.”

According to ACT, only about one-tenth of 1 percent of test-takers achieve a perfect score on the exam. Among 1.5 million graduating test-takers in 2009, only 638 achieved a 36 on the exam.

The ACT is divided into four sections: English, math, reading and science.

Each section receives a score of 1-36, with all four scores being averaged as a composite score.

— Associated Press

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By Chelsea BannachFor the Daily News

While many of his peers are looking for a job or enjoying a relaxing summer before heading off to college, Ben Sal Dana is gearing up for boot camp.

Sal Dana, a Kendrick High School graduate, has enlisted in the Air Force and will ship off to basic train-ing in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of June.

“I’m pretty anxious,” Sal Dana said. “I still have a month to go, so right

now it’s just a waiting game.”

In the meantime, Sal Dana will be preparing mentally and physi-cally for the rigors he will endure during boot camp.

“During basic, they yell at you a lot,” he

said. “They try to get you to tears and then build you back up again, so I’m trying to get prepared to be yelled at a lot and feeling like everyone hates me, even though they don’t.”

To stay in good physical shape before he leaves, Sal Dana adheres to a strict workout regimen. He runs a mile three

times a week and does 100 pushups and 50 situps each day.

He hopes his experience in the mili-tary will prepare him for his ultimate goal of becoming a state patrolman.

“I wanted to have some hands-on training for my future job, and I can get that in four years in the Air Force,” he said.

For Sal Dana, going into law enforce-ment seemed like a natural choice. Throughout his life, he has had several role models who were police officers, including sports coaches and family friends.

“I’ve just looked up to police officers my whole life, so I figured I might as well be one,” he said.

His decision to join the Air Force specifically was influenced by his step-father, who was also in the Air Force, he said.

In addition to preparing for basic training, Sal Dana plans to spend as much time as possible with his friends before leaving for the next four years.

Sal Dana played basketball all four years of high school and participated in The National FFA Organization for three. He works as a barista part time and enjoys playing video games in his free time.


Graduate gets ready for Air Force boot camp

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Kendrick student preparing for the next test

By Cindy ToopesOttumwa (Iowa) Daily Courier

Ottumwa High School, friendship and travel creat-ed a solid bond 50 years ago between two OHS graduates, and they’ve been buddies ever since.

One is from Stockholm, Sweden, and the other has homes in from Galena, Ill., and Phoenix, Ariz., but she’s origi-nally from Ottumwa.

Kerstin “Chris” Friis (now Anell) of Norrkoping, Sweden, is a former American Foreign Exchange (AFS) student. On Aug. 21, 1959, the Courier photographed Anell and Linda Helwig (now Lyon) of Ottumwa sharing a hug when Chris arrived to spend the school year with Linda’s family.

A former Ottumwan, Linda is a 1961 OHS graduate and is an only child who always wanted a sister. Chris’ parents wanted her to know about the world and be able to travel abroad for her studies.

In her e-mail, Linda said she and her husband, Jack Lyon (also a ’61 grad), — spent most of their teaching careers with the Department of Defense Overseas Dependents Schools. They taught in Germany and Japan and have retired to Phoenix, Ariz. Also, they have a summer home in Galena, Ill.

“We’ve kept in touch with Chris and her family over the years,” she wrote. “It’s been

about 10 years now since we’ve seen each other. She has never returned to Ottumwa since she left in 1960.”

Chris and her husband, Lars (a career Swedish dip-lomat and ambassador), are coming back for the reunion and “we’re so excited,” Linda said.

Both women came to the Courier on Friday to chat about the past five decades.

C h r i s remembered the trip to Ot tumwa. During the boat ride to the United States, she w a t c h e d “The Eddy D u c h i n Story,” the 1956 film about the life of the famous pia-nist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s.

“And, it was very warm dur-ing the bus ride from New York City,” she said. “All I remember seeing in Iowa was fields of corn. That was a long trip — nine days on the bus.”

Linda said Chris “was very popular” during the 1959-60 school year and was involved in many activities.

“I know there have probably

been many exchange students since then, but she was cer-tainly the most outgoing and well-liked one at that point,” Linda said. “Chris was even vice president of the class! She’s had a most interesting life and has achieved much in professional career as well as being a mother to four chil-dren.”

In the 1950s and 1960s, hosting an e x c h a n g e student was “ s o m e t h i n g special,” the women said.

“My folks and I went to New York City and visited the AFS office. We looked at appli-cations and matched me to Chris,” Linda said. “When I got Chris’ let-ter, we really seemed a good match and it

all worked so well. My parents hand-picked someone for me!”

Chris, who speaks perfect English, came to the U.S. on an “Americans to Europe” pro-gram. Her parents wanted her to see the world and maybe even live abroad.

“In Sweden, we learn English early. In the AFS pro-gram, you learn to be less self-ish and to be a part of your

surroundings that are unfa-miliar,” she said. “Things here were so new to me, such as the Canteen and drive-in cin-ema and many more details of everyday life in the States.”

Chris found her sched-ule amazing. She thought the school was “like a little city within the community” because of education and all the extracurricular activities like orchestra, band, speech and much more, such as social activities.”

While in Ottumwa, Chris said her “first home” was with the Helwig family, the second was Ottumwa High School and the third was the First Christian Church community.

Linda said the two of them “spoke to local groups.” Chris played the piano and they both sang.

“We made a good tag team,” she added.

After graduation, Chris returned to study economics in Stockholm and soon met Lars. Both have worked in govern-ment and civil service. The couple has four children and Chris said she valued the day care centers Sweden started in the 1960s.

When Chris arrived in Ottumwa this time, she was relieved to find OHS and its grand staircase still in place. However, she knows “it’s important to realize you can’t expect to find the same world” you left 50 years ago.

As the women left to enjoy their reunion weekend, Chris smiled.

“I’m so grateful that Linda and her family took me in,” she said. “You can’t be an exchange student if no one takes you in.”

Fifty years later, Swedish exchange student returns for visit to Iowa

“Things here were so

new to me, such as the Canteen and drive-in

cinema and many more details of everyday life

in the States.”Chris Friis Anell

Former exchange student

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