1.   Although he did well on the test, his parents said, he did not score high enough for the few available positions and had reached the age cutoff.

2.   And only seven black and seven Hispanic students scored high enough to get into the most selective of the schools, Stuyvesant.

3.   And Smith could not explain why he was scoring so low in plls here, when native sons customarily score high.

4.   On paper, the Fort McDowell and Gila River proposals seem to score high.

5.   The others scored it high on appearance but wrote that it was too sweet to garner top honors.

6.   The real benefit of the matrix is that it tends to highlight institutions that may not have been strong contenders if they had not scored high.

7.   The young American musician made his San Francisco Symphony debut at Davies Symphony Hall and scored high where you would least expect it - in the Teutonic Romantic repertoire.

8.   This gymnast, more than anyone, must nail her routine because the judges are primed to score her high if she does.

9.   China and South Korea also scored high in the survey, while Vietnam, Japan and Indonesia got the lowest grades for their crisis management skills, it said.

10.   Some health economists raised concerns about the method used to compile the rankings, in which several Mediterranean countries scored unexpectedly high.