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...more accurate indicator of educational quality, as suggested by The Atlantic, may be the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), distributed to first-years and seniors across the country. It questions students directly about their academic satisfaction, extracurricular involvement and engagement in campus life. These questions specifically address issues such as study abroad, interaction with professors and campus diversity. More than 730 colleges are represented in the current NSSE database. Last year, small portions of NSSE data were published on the U.S. News website under the title “Seniors Have Their...
...campus pub in between your 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. classes. To de-frizz my hair, “you’d best go back to New York” (that comes from the wise woman at the local hair salon). Irish youth prefer Budweiser to Guinness, and extracurricular activities in some colleges do not cause any stress whatsoever—they’re actually for fun—and they hold their meetings at pubs. Did I mention that pubs are central to life here...
...were personal qualities, represented by excellence, that Harvard was after, it would pursue more and more highly specialized kids, with lower cutoff points on grades and SAT’s, until it became, in effect, a vocational school for every extracurricular activity under the sun, where students breezed through classes between rehearsals, practices or lab time—precisely the opposite of the liberal arts ideal it seeks to embody. It would, in short, abandon the broken leg test. It might also take a disproportionate number of community service-minded applicants on the grounds that they demonstrated uncommon personal qualities...
...chunk of free time after a long day at school, it's better to have them do their homework as early as possible. Says Mary Carskadon of Brown University: "They do need downtime, but it should be closer to bedtime." Parents should avoid overloading the calendar and limit extracurricular sports and lessons to one or two a week. Another thing to avoid is scheduling activities after...
...goes by without anyone’s noticing I’ve short-sheeted their bed, much less retaliating; when I pleat meeting agendas into paper footballs, my peers fix me with icy stares instead of making little uprights out of their forefingers and thumbs. Students run extracurricular activities with an intensity more appropriate to the governance of small countries. Already this fall, seniors have donned conservatively-cut suits and trotted off to recruiting meetings. And Harvard University Dining Service recently announced that, in a bid to improve our health, they have eliminated trans fatty acids—those building...