Word: extracurriculars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complement a candidate's folder, the office now wants a finished portrait, clearly drawn with the kind of detail that leaves almost no room for error. A revised interview form sent out this year and last asks them to write three short essays outlining a student's potential academic, extracurricular, and personal contributions to Harvard. Even a professional artist cannot be expected to finish a portrait after only an hour sitting. If he wants to do a complete job, the first session would be spent sketching what he later intends to fill in after many more sittings. And the admissions...
Whereas the old form focused more on alumni's immediate impressions of a student's life at high school, the new form places much more emphasis on predicting how well the student will do at Harvard. The old form asked alumni to evaluate students' academic achievement, extracurricular and/or athletic contribution, and personal qualities on a list from one to six (one being truly outstanding, six being unrecommendable for admissions). The descriptions for each level are relatively objective and general enough that alumni could hazard opinions after an hour's interview. The form concluded with a blank page for the alumni...
...honestly say I didn't get into a lot of grad schools because of it," said Clayton, adding, "My GPA was high, my MCATs [Medical College Admission Text] scores were good and so were my extracurricular activities. But during the interviews I got, we spent most of the time talking about my suspension...
Both McNulty and Rippy have performed well individually in the classroom, earning nominations from the College to apply for Rhodes scholarships. But though they have pursued different academic paths--McNulty concentrates in Fine Arts and Rippy in History--the two pool many of their extracurricular efforts...
...like to spread it through the four-year sequence, making sure that non-majors investigate an area close to the natural sciences and technology, and also an area close to the humanities and creative arts. I would like to propose in addition another kind of program, which would be extracurricular, but required, as sports used to be in the old days. The program would be a set of opportunities to acquire some marketable skill or craft. The occupational future appears cloudy at best, often frightening. Even the children of the affluent run scared before the incipient hazards. Perhaps a majority...