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...Yard this weekend for the College’s annual “April Visiting Program” for admitted students. With the Admissions Office working 24 hours a day to accommodate its slew of new visitors, the approximately 1100 “pre-frosh” in attendance had the opportunity to attend organized events ranging from academic and extracurricular orientations to various social receptions and parties. “There are like 1000 things to do,” said Gary D. Carlson, an incoming freshman from New Jersey. “It’s hard...
...childhoods. Every sports fan remembers crying and cheering over losses and victories and immortalizing his or her athletic heroes. During spring training, students in the high school cafeteria would speak excitedly of a hopeful new year and look forward to missing school days in April and May to attend baseball games with their dads. During the winter, looking forward to Sunday football games was one of the few reprieves from the cold, dreary, snowy, and generally depressing weather. Every kid who lived in Chicago during the 1990s knew that their career of choice was to be Michael Jordan and also...
...think you will come here?” 78 times. The weather is rumored to be 70 degrees, but 70 degrees in Cambridge somehow translates to what you perceive as 50. It’s cloudy. At the 80s dance you are about to attend, you will notice how many Harvard students are so pale that they actually glow under a blacklight. All this is very disconcerting. On your ride over on the plane, you sat between some kid with a BlackBerry who wanted to compare the opportunities for junior politicians at Harvard and Brown and a girl wearing...
...class you decided to attend —“Logic and Number Theory”—turned out to be on the second floor of something called Sever and have a total of three students. You have no idea why this was on the list, because the professor speaks in a nervous, high-pitched whisper and is talking about “Well-Orderings.” You have no idea what these are. You tried taking notes for about six minutes before giving up and spending the remainder of the time nodding significantly at appropriate...
...When making an appeal, aid officers say, phone is always better than e-mail for the initial contact. And stressing how much a student wants to attend a particular school can't hurt - as long as it comes off sounding sincere. While awards are largely determined by economic factors, aid officers also recommend giving the appeal a more personal touch by having the student, rather than the parent, make the first call. "You tend to see [financial-aid officers] doing more because you're trying to help the student," says Chris Gruber, Davidson's vice president for admission and financial...