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According to survey results released this week by University Health Services, nearly half of Harvard’s 6,650 undergraduates report feeling “depressed” at some point over the last year and a disturbing 10 percent admit to having had thoughts of suicide in that time. This is a startling increase over previous surveys and should prompt an extensive response from the University. The administration, in concert with a panel of healthcare professionals, students and faculty, should look into ways of addressing this issue with the immediacy and effectiveness that such a serious student health...
Mathews’ main message is simple—that the Ivy-or-bust attitude held by many rankings-obsessed, pathologically competitive students needs to be calmed—although his 300-page guide also deals with technical topics ranging from college admit weekends to wait lists...
Mathews also examines the hardships of going to a top high school when it comes to the admissions process. Although college admissions officers are reluctant to admit it, Mathews lays out the cold truth that they do limit the number of accepted students from a single school...
...there anything special about Harvard graduates? Mathews wasn’t quick to offer any ego- boosting praise, but he did admit that “we tend to know more about history and science than other people” and we might often read newspapers at a higher rate...
...Both admit that living with each other has been a learning process. At one point, Keel remembers, Cardinale attended an anti-abortion rally. “She came back and was like, ‘You wouldn’t have liked it, there were a lot of militant feminists with shaved heads there,’” Keel recalls. “Well, I’m a feminist and I’m very militant. I’ve had my head shaved before. I’m sure [those feminists] would be cool if they...