Word: pooling
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...back: bronzed, corrupted, and with a little bit more experience underneath our belts or bikini bandeaus. Amid the pool aerobics, banana daiquiris and techno renditions of the thong song, FM has picked up some brand-spanking-new trinkets on our spring break rendezvous: nearby ivy league boyfriends, drinks with Mafia-connected priests, protection à la Coppertone, and shiny silver bracelets. But not all silver shines. Spring Break brought about its own risks. We boarded airlines whose insignias were sketched into oak-tag posters. We observed how boring the Midwest really is. We spent quality time in the Square and even...
...just how much harder is it to get into Harvard? The admissions office has no official statistics on trends in average SAT score or GPA of the applicant pool, so there is no way of knowing for sure. But there is one important reason why Harvard's admissions process may be considered the most competitive, despite a second place ranking in the U.S. News and World Report...
...Harvard accepted well over half of the Class of 2004 in December. As a result, there were precious few spots left open for deferred students and regular applicants. To give some numbers, there were over 16,000 applicants vying for around 900 spots in this year's regular applicant pool, giving regular decision yield of about five percent, not the ten percent average for overall acceptances...
...admissions office argues that there is no difference in difficulty between the two pools. They say that the early applicant pool is self-selecting, and it therefore makes up for its smaller size with higher quality. But the problem with this argument is that with Harvard's new early action policy, there should be very little difference between the two rounds...
...going to use these individuals in a capacity as employees and try to skirt around it by saying they're students, it's completely unfair to the graduate students," Dearborn added. "It's sort of a labor pool they're able to abuse...