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...could make all kinds of changes in the curriculum to make room for study abroad,” Gross says. “But one of the great obstacles in this will be securing status in extracurricular activities...
...talented students—I believe it has more to do with a culture of low expectations, where few parents or teachers expect even the best students to go to a top college, even if they are more than qualified, as shown by their grades, test scores and extracurricular achievements. Most of the students I shared honors classes with did not look beyond small colleges near home, or did not think about college at all until they were already too far behind in the application process. As Green’s article points out, some 43 percent of high-performing...
After piloting a successful dance program at Deerfield Academy, Yamaguchi sought bigger and better dance opportunities—not at the nation’s premier dance conservatory, but here at Harvard. Because dance at Harvard exists exclusively in the extracurricular domain, Yamaguchi says his dance experience has been fundamentally different from that of conservatory graduates...
...wanted to take advantage of academic and other extracurricular opportunities during my final year here that wouldn’t be possible with the huge time commitment of basketball,” Dunham said...
Mental health problems are increasingly common among university student communities. The impact of mental illness is serious: it includes personal suffering, and often difficulties in social and mentoring relationships, problems with learning and academic performance, interference with extracurricular activities and, in the most severe cases, risk of suicide. Indeed, one of the clearest conclusions from recent research is that mental disorders are highly disabling. For example, in the United States and other developed nations, major depression is the leading cause of disability...