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...Transfer admissions vary widely across the Ivy League, from Princeton which doesn’t admit any transfer students to Cornell, which accepted more than 600 last year. While the number of admits varies from year to year at Harvard, Yale has aimed to have about 24 transfer students matriculate each year for the past 15 years, according to Yale Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel...
...should admit that the problem does not lie wholly with our TFs so much as with the sheer stupidity that students think they can get away with. I wish I had a dime for every time I saw a TF’s flaccid, feigned smile of approbation, that muttering of “good” or “interesting” every time another student weighs in with a complete non-sequitur...
Groopman cautions that emotions are more of an issue than most physicians like to admit. Doctors who are particularly fond of a patient have been known to miss the diagnosis of a life-threatening cancer because they just didn't want it to be true. But negative emotions can be just as blinding, sometimes stopping a doctor from going the extra mile. "If you sense that your doctor is irritated with you, that he or she doesn't like you," says Groopman, "then it's time to get a new doctor." Studies show that most patients are pretty accurate...
...finally decided to take the hit the other night and sat down to watch “Babel.” (It was good; we can talk about it later.) But I must admit that I’ve largely forgotten the movie itself, largely because of the horribly distracting trailer for “Black Snake Moan,” a film which opened on March 2 and whose concept can be described in one word: epic...
Given the recent instances of outsiders sneaking into Harvard houses, I can understand this particular student’s concern and her decision to call the police on me. I have to admit, though, that I am still a little confused why I was mistaken for a creeper. I just figured that normally people are not suspicious of a college-aged kid entering a dorm at 1 p.m. on a school day, wearing a “Harvard ‘08” sweatshirt and carrying a book about deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs...