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...admissions officers should try harder to look for students beyond the private schools and public magnet schools that regularly feed applicants to Harvard. While the problem is compounded by the dismal state of New York City public schools, Harvard has the resources to mine different schools for qualified applicants??and, in the process, to redeem my city’s image at Harvard...
...waiting room on the day of her first interview, Horan huddled around a small table along with a bevy of generic applicants??each wearing a black suit, holding a black portfolio and feigning a toothy smile. She remembers that the other applicants were discussing that day’s federal funds rate. “There was a certain sense of camaraderie, but in a very Harvard way,” she says. “It was a game of ‘I’ll tell you the rate, but only if I make...
...important way to improve Summers’ package is to do away with student loans, just as Princeton’s did in 2001. While Harvard graduates students with significantly smaller loan debt in comparison to the national average, eliminating loans completely would get rid of applicants?? anxiety about having debts to pay before even leaving college. Debt can be a daunting hurdle to clear, regardless of the amount. Harvard should do all it can to empower lower-income students during their four years here on campus and after they graduate. Burdening its undergraduates with debt does...
...said the Admissions Office is now using statistics on applicants?? neighborhoods to ensure that the Class of 2008 represents a broader range of socioeconomic diversity...
...matter how good an athlete is, admissions officers will only compromise so much. The Ivy League uses a number called the Academic Index (AI), which Bowen says he invented, to measure applicants?? classroom qualifications. The index is the sum of three components: the average of students’ highest SAT I math and verbal scores divided by ten; the average of their three highest SAT II achievement test scores divided by ten; and their class rank converted to a 20-to-80 scale. A student who answered every question wrong on every SAT he took and placed last...