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...every school is different. Independent college counselor Jeannie Borin, founder of Los Angeles--based College Connections, tells waitlisted student-clients never to send anything extra to admissions offices without asking permission. Generally, colleges welcome updates on grades and achievements, which is what Sarah Brown-Campello, captain of the soccer and lacrosse teams at Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., is sending to her top choice, Dickinson College (she wants small classes and a chance to take Portuguese), along with a new teacher recommendation. Davison's classmate Jordan Vincent, whose heart is set on University of Virginia, has written a new essay...
Continuing its series of “Beer School” events, the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub hosted Boston Beer Company founder C. James Koch ’71 yesterday evening. The popular pub series welcomes local brewers to host beer tastings and discuss the challenges faced in the brewing industry. Koch, who also received law and business degrees from Harvard, was slated to discuss the legal aspects of brewing and distributing beer, but the boisterous executive instead chose to focus on his passion of making quality beer. “There are some...
...Monday night, things were different in Quincy dining hall: Students were counting cards instead of carbs. Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business put down their résumés and picked up poker chips. The reason? A blackjack tutorial taught by Bill B. Kaplan ’77, the founder of the MIT blackjack team that inspired the book “Bringing Down the House” and the movie “21,” and David A. Irvine, a former member of the team. “21” has received heavy media attention...
Partners In Health founder Paul E. Farmer discussed his non-profit healthcare organization’s involvement in the developing world yesterday afternoon at the Harvard School of Public Health. Farmer, a professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, spoke alongside two other medical experts about the intimate connection between poverty and disease and the need for intervention at a much broader scope. “It’s not fair for people to be able to starve in the 21st century when there’s such affluence,” said Farmer. During the two-hour...
...reasons Smith was selected as dean, University President Drew G. Faust said last spring, was his organizational experience outside of the academy. He was the founder of Liquid Machines, a company that sells digital rights management software to major corporations. But this very experience is sometimes a source of friction with the professors he leads...