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Moreover, preregistration forces advisers to recommend courses for next semester without the benefit of knowing how their advisees did the semester beforehand. This is another area where first-years are hit especially hard, since they need advising the most and their advisers will have no grade reports to assess their progress by the time they sign up for classes in November. The adviser will have to make a judgment as to whether a student should start organic chemistry in the spring semester without knowing whether the student sailed through Chemistry 15 in the fall or failed the class. While advisers...
Harvard became the planning ground for new initiatives in the battle against AIDS in Africa and Asia last week, as representatives of several global corporations, academic experts, Non-Governmental Organizations and a United Nations (U.N.) under secretary-general convened to assess the relationship of business to the epidemic...
Unfortunately, the commission has not rejected a proposal that would allow universities to comply with Title IX by conducting regular surveys of their student bodies to assess interest in athletics. But this implies that while men do not have to prove their interest in sports, women must do so in order to have equal rights to play. What’s more, interest surveys could hurt attempts to recruit female athletes. There will be no motivation to encourage participation of women but rather every motivation to discourage...
Thus, the book includes an advice chapter which consists of ten guidelines for early applicants to assess their chances. The books also includes a “technical appendix” which uses the data gathered for the book to create an “admissions calculator...
That audience includes college admissions professionals. In the final chapter, the authors assess the likelihood of various changes in the early admissions system...