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After assignments have been made, freshman students and host families receive each other’s contact information. Host families—which usually contain at least one Harvard alum—are expected to take the initiative to reach out to their first-year students prior to the students?...
“We always ask interested graduates, friends, and colleagues—in addition to reunion classes—if they want to help welcome first-year students to Harvard,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67. “This program...
Participants in the program said both sides of the equation have been rewarding.
“Host families have been a great resource for a lot of students because it can be a challenging transition from high school to college and from their hometown to Cambridge,” Chan said. “I feel like it’s made the...
Codrea said that host families may have been more important to students last year when the two-week-long winter break was not enough time for many students to return home.