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...frolic with her brother Jack, 5. "She speaks loudly--sometimes too loudly--and can be bossy toward her brother," says mother Lisa Barnes, who runs the trading desk at a money-management firm. Abby is, in every other way, a perfectly normal child who has no shortage of extracurricular activities, including horseback-riding lessons and dance classes that she's been attending since she was 4. "Performing in public is fine," says her mother. "She likes people to look at her and applaud...
...shown a deep commitment to assuring the best possible experience for students at Harvard College - both by launching and leading the first comprehensive review of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum in a generation, and by pursuing innovative ways to enhance residential and extracurricular life...
...required, 21-meal-a-week plan is purposely designed to provide students with unlimited access to dining services, yet the UC survey also reported that almost 90 percent of students miss dinner at least once a week because of timing. Students’ strenuous class and extracurricular schedules should not inhibit them from receiving the full benefits of their $4,430-a-year meal plan. Consequently, students are often forced to spend their own limited funds on food in the Square, either because they are unable to eat before 7:15 p.m. or because they (the 97 percent...
...there is a lot more supplemental-learning activity here,” Sarah Miller says. “Almost all classes have an optional additional class...whether extra section...or lunch with the professor.”KEEPING BUSYTheir status as unanticipated visitors left the Tulane students without many extracurricular options. With such a short stint at the College, there was little time to become involved in the activities that, for Harvard students, often define the college experience.Ordoyne was one exception: he petitioned his way into a special seat on the Lowell House Committee and even looked into joining...
...cultural crevasse larger than that faced by immigrants' kids whose families at least share a Western civilization that makes American customs a little less alien. Sam Chang's Korean parents were horrified when he got involved in student government at his high school in Phoenix, Ariz. They viewed his extracurricular activities as frivolous diversions from the main goal of his getting into a top college. "When I came home freshman year as president, they had no idea what that meant," says Chang, now 26 and a law student at the University of Arizona. It took congratulations from other parents...