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...their advice is unheeded by freshman Olivia Benowitz, actress, makeup artist, and founder of Harvard’s newest club sport, the Dressage Team...
HFAI also relies heavily on personal connections to draw in students. While most Harvard admissions officers are neither inviting nor elusive to applicants, HFAI recruits relentlessly. “They contacted us like a million times a day,” says Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, an HFAI recruit who visited Harvard over prefrosh weekend...
Similarly, Benowitz, a sprightly prefrosh from a performing arts school in New York City, said that Harvard was on her radar “only as a dream school—one of the ones you don’t go to,” until she learned about HFAI...
...results of HFAI’s work can be seen not only in students such as Rincon, Harrison, and Benowitz, but in those similarly lower-income students who will follow them to elite universities in the coming years. For example, after receiving recruitment letters from HFAI and the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP), Rincon applied, accepted, and matriculated. But it didn’t stop there. Mike A. Nguyen ’09, another low-income soon-to-be graduate of Century High School, followed her lead and applied to Harvard the next year. Rincon and Nguyen were the first...
...benefits, especially in stroke victims, would be two-fold, Benowitz said, according to his laboratory research. A major problem with strokes is that not only are cells damaged, but also, cells that are not immediately killed lose their connections and die out over time...