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Space constraints and the largest college applicant pool in history created an unusual year for Harvard admissions. In March, Harvard notified over a thousand transfer applicants that it would accept none of them and halt transfer admissions for two years, dismaying potential admits??particularly at Deep Springs, a two-year college with a long tradition of Harvard transfers. And spurred by this same caution about residential constraints, the admissions office took a conservative approach to applicants for the class of 2012, announcing the lowest admissions rate in recent memory, before admitting an unprecedented 200 students off the wait...
CORRECTION: The March 19 story “College To Halve Transfer Admits?? listed the incorrect location of Deep Springs College. The college is located in California—not Nevada, as the article states...
...development” admissions, in which a small number of spots in every freshman class would effectively be auctioned off, resulting in even higher revenues for everyone else’s financial aid. Relying on only mega-donations from the parents of such “development admits?? is not enough. The decline in grassroots donations that would result from taking away what amounts to a feather on the admissions scale is too high of a price for the College...
Snapping on her rubber gloves—the job would be “pretty gross” without them, she admits??she sprays on Mur-Kil (Dorm Crew’s disinfectant of choice), dips the sponge in the bowl, and gives the porcelain a scrub, finishing up with a last swipe, rinse, and flush. Although she has just achieved in five minutes what some of her accomplished fellow classmates will go four years without doing, she waxes philosophical about the experience...
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