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First thing first-ditch the folder. Harvard Yard’s easy enough to figure out, especially with the signs posted by every extracurricular activity at Harvard pointing you in the direction of various buildings...
High school extracurricular activities had regular hours. But here, you may find yourself awake at 5:30 a.m. rowing on the Charles River or burning the midnight oil doling soup to Cambridge homeless or putting the finishing touches on a campus publication. With 250 independent student organizations, your identity at Harvard is often intermeshed with how you spend your time away from your books...
...sheer volume of applicants, have little choice but to rely heavily on SAT scores. But universities that have the resources to evaluate each application more closely—such as Harvard, other Ivy League schools and small liberal-arts colleges—should weigh individuals’ grades, recommendations, extracurricular activities and essays far more than their SAT scores. When they do consider SAT scores, these schools should take the socioeconomic context of applicants into account...
...University benefits greatly from a vibrant extracurricular life, and encouraging alumni contributions to student groups would serve Harvard’s interests, reducing both the need for University expenditures and the strain on the budgets of grant-giving organizations like the Undergraduate Council. Rather than cannibalize student group donations and compete with undergraduates in fund-raising prowess, Harvard should level the playing field. Donations to Harvard student groups are still donations to the University, and they should be counted as such...
Ayeni spoke about the depression that engulfed her during her first two years at Harvard when she found herself failing to achieve the academic, athletic and extracurricular success that she had in high school...