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Most visiting students come to Harvard specifically for the academic programs that either complement their area of study—economics is an overwhelmingly popular concentration??or allow them to experience the American liberal arts education that contrasts sharply with the pre-professional focus of many European and Asian universities. Momsen, who is taking mostly economics classes and is cross-registered at HBS and KSG, says he came to Harvard for an educational experience his university in Germany doesn’t offer...
House and many others experienced grading quotas instituted in courses such as Government 97a—the concentration??s sophomore tutorial supervised by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who has long been known as an opponent of grade inflation...
Citations and certificates are two of Harvard’s options for students who complete significant work outside of their concentration??though many students, like Gasgarth, say these programs are poorly publicized...
Twenty-five percent of a concentration??s ranking is based on advising, the best indication of a student’s relationship to his or her concentration for which numerical data is available. Every senior in the Class of 2001 filled out a survey rating three aspects of his or her advising, and each of these three questions accounts for 6 percent of the overall ranking. The concentration??s student-to-adviser ratio makes up 7 percent of the overall ranking...
...distinguish a unique program of study or to convince the committee they are not just trying to devise a plan that excuses them from tedious introductory coursework in another field. According to Foster, there is no cap to the number of students who will get approval for a special concentration??the most crucial component behind the decision is the presence of a “truly original idea” in the proposal...