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Several recommendations concerned first-years, including a requirement that every first-year take between two and four courses that are not letter graded and a suggestion that upperclass housing assignments be made before entering the College...
Gross also said the review wants to further look into the housing system in place at Yale University, in which first-year students are randomly assigned to residential colleges before they ever set foot on campus...
...reality merits a closer look. “Upon arrival at one of the world’s most famous institutions of higher learning,” the Boston Globe reported in January, a first-year student will “most likely...be advised by a graduate student—who may or may not understand the ins and outs of Harvard’s undergraduate system.” Substituting for faculty advisers less-experienced graduate students, “who may or may not” know what they’re doing, seriously calls into question...
Glazer, who is the chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee, said that he hasn’t heard from the Freshman Dean’s Office whether or not it will change its policy to grant upperclassmen access rights to first-year dorms...
...first-year roommates had never been out of the Eastern Standard Time zone, much to O’Mary’s shock. “When I was growing up,” he says, “three time zones seemed pretty close...