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This past Monday, a mere 11 days after the application deadline, the College officially granted J-term housing to 1,316 out of the 1,404 undergraduates who applied??yielding a surprisingly high acceptance rate of 93 percent. Given the College’s ambiguous pre-deadline statements as to how many applicants it would allow to stay on campus and which student needs would actually translate into dormitory swipe access, the decision to permit almost all J-term applicants to stay at Harvard in January is both encouraging and commendable...
This past Monday, a mere 11 days after the application deadline, the College officially granted J-term housing to 1,316 out of the 1,404 undergraduates who applied??yielding a surprisingly high acceptance rate of 93 percent. Given the College’s ambiguous pre-deadline statements as to how many applicants it would allow to stay on campus and which student needs would actually translate into dormitory swipe access, the decision to permit almost all J-term applicants to stay at Harvard in January is both encouraging and commendable...
...Modern college curricula have no regard for the virtues. The wisdom offered in classrooms, if not, as in the admittedly “applied?? sciences, purely instrumental, is then essentially a curiosity, since it has no relationship to the good life. And, as such, graduates will be left uninstructed as to how they ought to use, or how they ought to act with, the knowledge they have gained and the natural intelligence they have sharpened over the last four years...
...percent, some libraries are preferentially hiring students on work-study, whose wages are subsidized by the federal government. In Kirkland, for example, though applications poured in earlier this year—according to Kirkland House library tutor Allison K. Rone ’06, about 60 students applied??the House could not afford to accommodate as many undergraduates who did not qualify for federal work-study as in past years. All the Kirkland undergraduates who were newly hired this year to work in the library participate in federal work-study. The number of library employees has also fallen...
...schools. Yale, for example, last year admitted 19 QuestBridge Scholars on full scholarship.Finally, Fitzsimmons noted that the early program deadline went against Harvard’s decision in 2006 to end its nonbinding early admission program.A representative from QuestBridge declined to be interviewed.‘I MIGHT HAVE APPLIED??One QuestBridge Scholar, Jackson W. Brebnor, currently a freshman at Pomona College in California, said that the QuestBridge program’s early deadline meant he ruled out Harvard before he knew more about it.“I felt like not being informed about Harvard...