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...question of why other selective schools can stand to admit more economically underprivileged students, Fitzsimmons points out that no school is as selective as Harvard. Where Heller sees enormous market power, Fitzsimmons sees incredible competition...
Even with preferences given to lower-income students, it’s hard to turn down some of the world-class students who apply to Harvard, the admissions dean argues. And whereas other schools with lower yields can afford to admit a larger chunk than they expect to matriculate, Harvard has to narrow things down early, leaving it less room to work with...
...Admissions would not be an attractive way to spend your life if all you did is talk to people and admit people who would have applied anyway,” Fitzsimmons says. “You really judge yourself in the end by how much of a difference you can make...
...sweeping Sri Lanka, personal animosity has triumphed over good governance?and could even jeopardize the fragile peace. President Chandrika Kumaratunga's moves last week to sack three senior ministers, suspend Parliament and impose a state of emergency?all while her Prime Minister was overseas?represented, even her party members admit, a naked power grab rather than an attempt to protect "national security" as she claimed. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's return to Colombo three days later and his triumphant procession to the cheers of tens of thousands were, his supporters agree, premature victory celebrations. To the north, the decision...
...invisible the role of women in current scholarship, nor do we want to neglect the history of CDWS. Preserving the word “women” in the title is particularly important in light of the history of women at Harvard, one of the last leading universities to admit women as equal students (it was only in 2000, after all, that female graduates of Harvard didn’t have a Radcliffe seal singling out their diplomas as ‘separate but equal’), and one of the last to legitimize women’s studies with...