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...good columnist from the Sun addresses none of these issues. His fresh, new analysis of the athletic scholarship discussion might best be summed up as he so eloquently put it, “Because we don’t admit retards at my school. The Ivy League means one thing and that’s serious academic business, baby...
...fact that, according to factors we’ll discuss later, Cornell has the weakest admissions standards of all the league’s schools.) He goes on to imagine a hypothetical Ivy League—under the athletic scholarship policy—in which the member institutions would admit a recruit “with an SAT score of 400 or an ACT score of nine, so long as their high school GPA in 14 core subjects is above...
If—as I am sure the admissions board says—there are no compromises on academics made, then admitting people without particular emphasis on sporting ability should still be able to produce a healthy athletics program. I will admit that we may not pull in 14 Ivy League titles again, but we don’t need to. Harvard is not a university that needs to be recognized nationally for its sports. We are (perhaps arguably) the top university in the country, if not the world, and concerns about our athletics program that extend to our admissions...
...College announced yesterday that is has accepted 36 visiting students for the semester from schools shut down by Hurricane Katrina, 11 more students than Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby initially said the College would admit on Sept...
Though only a meager few introductory courses (including History 10a: Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures from Antiquity to 1650) admit it outright in their course titles, nearly all intro courses at Harvard focus on the West. Social Studies 10, Historical Studies A-12, English 10a (and 10b), Ec 10, and Justice, to name a few, stick only to the intellectual, political, historical, and economic achievements of Eurasia and North America (plus the Near East and North Africa during ancient times...