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...Harvard is “daunting, to say the least.”“My favorite professor in community college could only remember one other student of his applying and he had been teaching there for thirty years or more.” Out of only 75 admitted transfers in the class of 2009, Harvard “enrolled about 5 transfer students from two year colleges,” according to Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, director of admissions for Harvard College.Lewis added that the Harvard’s admissions office...
...unprecedented. General MacArthur objected to Harry Truman's handling of the Korean War and was fired in 1951. The Air Force didn't like the way Lyndon Johnson handpicked bombing targets during the Vietnam War. And Bill Clinton had to back down after he ordered the Pentagon to openly admit homosexuals in 1993 by settling on the narrower "Don't ask, don't tell" policy...
Hinojosa said he drew from his own upbringing when emphasizing how important it is for the University to admit students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds...
...know it, but throughout the year, any interaction you have with your friendly neighborhood proctor could end up in an evaluation at the admissions office, informing future admissions decisions. Recently, the admissions office was forced to admit, via a mistakenly sent email, that information collected about current freshman, and possibly upperclassmen, may be used to determine who was an “admissions mistake” and who was a treasured find. The email—accidentally sent by a proctor to a Crimson reporter—condemned two students as “so self-centered that they have...
...billionaire like Silvio Berlusconi is used to wanting, and getting, it all. Even when he has to admit defeat, Berlusconi usually comes away better off than most. So it shouldn't be that surprising that while his days as Italian Prime Minister are now almost certainly numbered, the charismatic media mogul may well emerge from the election, ostensibly won by center left leader Romano Prodi, as what one center-left source called "winning loser." Having made up much ground in the polls in the final weeks, Berlusconi has reaffirmed his own party, Forza Italia, as the single largest political force...