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...only stereotype I am aware of is that Eliot House is full of snobby rich prep school students. This is not true, Eliot House follows the College's ratio of public to prep school graduates. While it is true that there are some snobby and some very rich students here, there are no more than in any other house. Eliot House has a more diverse student population than perceived--we have the largest Puerto Rican student population on campus...
Parties like that could only happen in a department with a faculty-to-concentrator ratio of more than one-to-one. Some Harvard students in larger departments might shrink at the prospect of faculty members knowing them so well and keeping track of them...
Three hundred ninety-nine swiped for every one returned--not the most efficient ratio imaginable...
...This is a change from the way it was 10 years ago," says Ann McCormick, director of off-campus work-study at BU. She says that the ratio of on-campus/off-campus workers was once 60/40 but has continually lessened through the years. "Students find it convenient to work on-campus. Campuses create more jobs for work-study, and reward students with merit increases for staying at the same...
...three firms hire only certified teachers, many of them moonlighting at about $6-$10 an hour; and none permits a pupil-to-teacher ratio of more than 3 to 1. "We're doing all the things the schools would do if they could afford it," says Paula Singer, a vice president at Reading Game. Public school people agree. "There's no way public schools can match the attention given to just three students at a time," says Joseph Condon, assistant superintendent of the Ocean View school district in Huntington Beach, Calif., where Reading Game has its headquarters...