As said above, they usually select poor students with high academic talent.
A high talent does better than a low talent.
This offers opportunity to give them back to the race with your highest talent reinforced... without loss to anyone.
It was all empirical enough; but that was the only way open even to the highest talent.
It also boasts very high musical talents in all years.
As a prose writer Quental displayed high talents, though he wrote little.
It requires the highest talent possible and the rarest gifts.
This enables the Academy to be regarded as a repository of the highest scientific talent available in the country.
Henry James said of him in 1884, "He has high talent, a charming nature and is civilized to his fingertips."
Apropos, Ford happened to have a high talent for listening.