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...admissions process. Harvard accepts one-third of legacy applicants—more than three times its overall admissions rate. The federal Office for Civil Rights, in a 1990 review of Harvard’s admissions practices, found that legacy preferences allowed applicants with “weaker credentials?? to gain acceptance to Harvard. Tell any Harvard student that you’re a beneficiary of legacy admissions and he’ll assume that you’re a polo-playing Porcellian Club member with gentleman?...
...Allston and propelled development forward thus far.Among the first buildings set for the University’s 241 acres is a massive 500,000 square foot science complex to be designed by Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner—a Stuttgart-based architectural firm with environmentally-friendly credentials??which will house the Stem Cell Institute and the newly created Harvard Institute for Biological Engineering.“[The current plan] definitely reflects [Summers’] priorities,” says Harvard’s chief Allston planner, Kathy A. Spiegelman, who began work as the vice president...
...depth—concentration requirements—to create a comprehensive and enriching academic experience. A departure from this philosophy represents Harvard at its worst: responding to short-term market forces and the expense of sound conviction. In addition to breadth and depth, students will now unavoidably be pursuing credentials??credentials for things that are irrelevant to a worthwhile academic experience. And these students can hardly be blamed for it: they are each the victim of their peers, responding to perceived pressures, beholden to the whims of employers, graduate schools, and other ends which trivialize the integrity...
...more thing—Dartmouth is 0-5 at home. Honestly, I don’t blame them, what with all the terrible people they have there. Try to get into a press box with the wrong type of credentials??it’s no use. They’ll turn you away and make you sit in the cold and rain even though all you’re wearing is a long sleeve t-shirt and three other writers from your newspaper are inside and they all plead with them to let you in. But I digress?...
...report also suggests that the Institute is still suited to serve women’s interests in some ways, acting as a base for female scholars to build credentials??and hopefully catch the attention of Harvard department chairs who can offer them tenure-track positions—and as a “convener” for women across the University...