It is nonetheless plausible that the lack of effects on college selectivity that we find may hold in higher - income districts as well, since students in these districts who fall just shy of the top 10 percent likely face fewer informational and financial barriers to enrolling in high -
quality colleges absent an automatic admissions guarantee than do students in our sample.
An erratic student and
college dropout with a flair for writing, the young Davis went on — in a life as rich with adventure and reward as it was with heartbreak and misfortune — to redefine the American car magazine, ushering in standards of literary
quality that had been sorely
absent while in the process creating a larger - than - life persona for himself so distinct that it often obscured the man behind it.