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After assignments have been made, freshman students and host families receive each other’s contact information. Host families—which usually contain at least one Harvard alum—are expected to take the initiative to reach out to their first-year students prior to the students’ arrival in Cambridge...
Hosts and students are introduced to each other for the first time at the beginning of the school year during an event hosted by the Freshman Dean’s Office...
...past two years, McFarlane has worked closely with both host families and freshman students to design matches...
...program seeks out host families by directly approaching University affiliates and sending additional letters to local alumni during their respective reunion weeks to invite them to serve as hosts for freshman students...
...addition to reunion classes—if they want to help welcome first-year students to Harvard,” said Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67. “This program has been growing, and we know from testimonials that host families make the freshman year experience much richer, simply by inviting host students for home-cooked meals or introducing them to the community...