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...Ostern, a first-year graduate student at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, founded the Web site with classmate Peter Freedman, a second-year at the Tuck School. The two thought up the idea after finals last year at a local bar, and say they are thrilled with their project’s results since its launch in September. The site has recorded over 50,000 votes already from its first two test campuses. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...There was a lot of tension at that time,” said Ismail, now a first-year student at the Law School. “But since then, we’ve had very good ties...
...That idea of a borderless world makes sense to Kuang Yinghuan, who arrived in Japan in 2002 as part of a high-school exchange program that each year brings 200 top students from China's northeast to Japan. Five years on, Kuang's Japanese is impeccable and he's a first-year graduate student at the University of Tokyo. "When I first came here, people made fun of me because I didn't speak Japanese well," he says with a grimace. "But now, when I tell them I'm a University of Tokyo student, they think of me as that...
...accurate when you write that “asking anyone to be a general adviser to a freshman without support from specialists is asking far too much of a single person.” We could not agree more, and, in fact, that is why first-year advising is designed with built-in redundancy. We believe that this is the best way to provide freshmen with a network of advisers, from proctors to non-resident advisers to peer fellows to concentration advisers, none of whom could—or should—be expected to know everything about every course...
...hundred advisers in the concentrations), making the right academic choices can seem confusing or overwhelming at times, and navigating the curriculum can be complicated. We do see areas for improvement in first-year advising. But freshmen surveys, focus groups, conversations with students, their parents and alumni over the last couple of years indicate that there is a growing satisfaction with academic advising. They all suggest that first-year advising is more successful than your editorial depicts...