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First off, the quality of students at schools like Princeton and Harvard is high and, often, most students fit into the top tier. To try to enforce some kind of bell curve is illogical. Rather than properly distributing grades, a bell curve forced on campuses like Harvard and Princeton makes minute mistakes dramatically important in an effort to differentiate between students. It also means some students get graded poorly for good work so that quotas...
Finding room to fit in electives around concentration and Core obligations can be difficult, according to Joy A. Cooper ’06, an African and African-American Studies concentrator who is also working to complete her premedical requirements...
...gilded nooses - pinnacles of plebeian filmmaking that regrettably turned studio heads away from craftsmanship towards greener pastures. Marketing budgets ballooned to rival production costs, strategic release date positioning during the summer months became essential and, as you mentioned, inexplicable sequels popped up left and right. Studios now saw it fit to accompany Psycho with three full remakes, investing in tag lines like, “Norman Bates is back to normal. But Mother’s off her rocker again...
...He’s a sort of idealistic and naive 18-year-old kid. It’s not that hard to remember what that was like. Harvard people have that bipolar, idealistic-slash-skeptical character, so it pretty much fit...
Goonan touches on an important point: rejection is not strictly based on merit. It is also based on fit. For Peter and others, years of accumulated success have led them to mindlessly judge themselves based on measures respected within the academy—admissions, job offers and grades. But rejection at Harvard often extends beyond these matters and into areas where assessing merit is more difficult...