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...applying to college. Ultimately, this amounts to a default rejection of some students who might have been among Harvard’s best, undermining the many recent admissions initiatives aimed at attracting the strongest, most diverse, and most interesting classes possible. It discourages those who have made alternate educational decisions??such as attending community college or enrolling in a two-year program. It also creates a discontinuity in the current campus transfer community, leaving new transfers without guidance from those in years past. While it’s too late to change this year’s decision...
...plant biology professor was attuned to the reality of Harvard tenure decisions??that prospective senior faculty do not find out the results of the committee meetings until days after the decisions are made...
Beginning in the spring of 2009, students can also take Economics 1400: “The Contents of Globalization: Issues, Actors, and Decisions?? taught by Summers and Kennedy School economics professor Lant Pritchett for Societies of the World credit...
...Undergraduates have also argued that the ultimate loser in this situation will be the College itself. Potential Harvardians who have “made different educational decisions??—by attending a community or 2-year college, for instance—will be excluded for as long as transfer admissions remain on hiatus. Choking off the flow of late-arrivals will, as one writer lamented, cheat Harvard of a much-needed supply of “congenial, self-satisfied enrollees more interested in making friends than meeting recruiters,” a group underrepresented among four-year...
While his research isn’t about self-help, it’s certainly made Gilbert himself happier. For example, he takes the lesson that people tend to focus on insignificant decisions??like what pants to buy—to Costco, where he purchases his casual cargo pants in bulk...