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According to Harvard College Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70, the number of community college transfer applicants and the overall transfer admit rates are low. This year the number of transfers decreased in an effort to reduce House crowding, McGrath said...
...changes, which the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) plans to implement for the 2008-09 academic year, will improve stipends for graduate students in the social sciences and humanities while making it possible for graduate programs in science and engineering divisions to admit larger Ph.D. classes...
Though small in scale—if approved, the department plans to admit just three students in the fall of 2009—the proposed graduate program will benefit both undergraduates and faculty enormously. Despite frequent complaints about teaching fellows dominating undergraduate pedagogy, the presence of graduate students actually enriches the undergraduate experience. Beyond providing undergraduates with more advanced course offerings and a pool of advisers and mentors, graduate programs create a culture of cutting edge research that in turn begets a more vibrant learning environment...
...shroud their doings in mystery, confounding their hometown friends with tales of the “script comp” or the “Crimson comp.” This term is unknown even at Yale. And Harvard students would prefer it to remain ambiguous. To have to admit to ex-colleagues from the Debate or Fencing team that their primary hobby is now “applying” would be too much. Harvard students love to comp. But they hate talking about it. And this is why the revelation of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg?...
...gives just that impression. Perhaps there’s even an element of mysticism or magic in the book. If Wao turns out to be a kind of Chinese gangster/philosopher with the ability to transform into a bird, this book is going to be a big hit. Because, just admit it, you and I were both obsessed with those “Animorphs” books...