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  2. Early action - Wikipedia

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    Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have a Single-Choice Early Action program (SCEA), which restricts the applicant to apply early action to one school with a few exceptions and generally prohibits applying to any binding early admission programs.

  3. Single transferable vote - Wikipedia

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    The single transferable vote ( STV ), sometimes mistakenly conflated with proportional ranked choice voting ( P-RCV ), [a] is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternative ...

  4. Early decision - Wikipedia

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    Early decision. Early decision ( ED) or early acceptance is a type of early admission used in college admissions in the United States for admitting freshmen to undergraduate programs. It is used to indicate to the university or college that the candidate considers that institution to be their top choice through a binding commitment to enroll (i ...

  5. Instant-runoff voting - Wikipedia

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    Instant-runoff voting ( IRV ), also known as ranked-choice voting or the alternative vote ( AV ), [1] combines ranked voting (in which voters rank candidates rather than choosing only a single preferred candidate) together with a system for choosing winners from these rankings by repeatedly eliminating the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and reassigning their votes until only one ...

  6. Monogamy - Wikipedia

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    Monogamy ( / məˈnɒɡəmi / mə-NOG-ə-mee) is a relationship of two individuals in which they form an exclusive intimate partnership. Having only one partner at any one time, whether that be for life or whether that be serial monogamy, contrasts with various forms of non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory ). [1] More generally, the term is used to describe the behavioral ecology and ...

  7. Motivation - Wikipedia

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    Motivation is relevant in many fields and affects educational success, work performance, consumer behavior, and athletic success. Motivation is an internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal -directed behavior. It is often understood as a force that explains why people or animals initiate, continue, or terminate a certain behavior ...

  8. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The quotation "all men are created equal" is found in the United States Declaration of Independence.The final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jefferson during the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776.

  9. Single peaked preferences - Wikipedia

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    The single-peaked recognition problem is the following decision problem: given a set of preferences on a set of outcomes, decide if there is a common order of the outcomes for which the preferences are single-peaked.