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...It’s an even better way to commit yourself to not fool around,” Steve says. “Not only are you getting paid for it, there is that moral thing, too.”But don’t drop your pants yet—Steve is one of the one to two percent of applicants who are eventually accepted, according to Carla Pedrussian, the marketing manager for the sperm bank. And, surprisingly, not all Harvard students seem to measure up.With a perfect score on his SATs and a varsity letter from...
Knowing the reputation, Kominers kept an unofficial tally of last year’s drop-off: “Last year, we had 51 students the first day, 31 students the second day, 24 for the next four days, 23 for two more weeks, and then 21 for the rest of the first semester after the fifth Monday...
...figure he’s just trying to get people to drop the class,” Litt says...
...figured wrong. As class attendance steadily thins, the workload does not. The first few problem sets each take about 40 hours to complete. The work burden is reason enough for many extraordinarily gifted students to drop...
...eye” at passersby. ‘THREATENING THEIR JOBS’Despite reveling in catching people off-guard, Hwang says that the other candidates have reason to see him as a serious contender.“At UC meetings, we were politely asked to drop out,” he says. Because this year’s candidate pool is so large, Hwang says that the votes among the top contenders could be split. “One in a field of six makes us extra dangerous, although the little guy,” he says...