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Fitzsimmons said he acknowledges that not all cultures value "non-academic credentials" such as extracurricular activities. The admissions committee has to take into account the differences in how international students present themselves compared to American students, Fitzsimmons said...
...applaud OCS officials' recognizing that students have classes and extracurricular commitments in the afternoons and often cannot make it to the building before the reading room closes at 4:30 p.m. The extra hours may also add a modicum of calm to the reading room during frenzied afternoons, because students will realize that they can come back after dinner to look for more information. And anything that would make the atmosphere less tense in the room where students decide their futures is a positive change. It is about time the College realized that students operate on a much later schedule...
...sections and hold extracurricular sessions to teach them how to compute," he says. "Those are the most important students to catch--those who might be shy about computing itself...
Ellison lists the IOP and the College Democrats as two extracurricular organizations she plans to join...
...course, there are dozens more types. The laid-back. The artsy. The nerd. The extracurricular king or queen. Come to think of it, the most interesting project of all might be to put seven Harvard people together in a house to find out what happens when they stop being polite and start being real. But there's one major flaw: Harvard people aren't polite to begin with. Let the auditions begin...