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...their junior and senior years—a sequence that concentrators say drove some students away.ONE SEMESTER LESSAll four concentrations being modified have reduced the total number of concentration requirements to compensate for students’ now delayed concentration declaration date, which was moved from the end of freshman year to the end of sophomore fall during the curricular review in 2007.The Astrophysics concentration has reduced the number of its basic requirements from 16 to 12, English has reduced the number from 12 to 11, Classics has reduced it from 12 to 11, and Music has reduced it from...
...Moreover, Harvard really did the transfer process right—something of which no student at the college will soon have any recollection. Our orientation, which was longer than freshman orientation, was led exclusively—save for two mandatory meetings—by students who had transferred in previous semesters. The required meetings were not “Sex Signals” or anything of the like but simply relayed to us academic-related information that we needed to know. The rest of the week consisted of optional social events and meals. In turn, this set-up placed very...
...Yale as a sophomore was assigned to live in Old Campus, the equivalent of a second-year student here living in the Yard. At another school where I was accepted as a transfer student, all the literature I received welcomed me to the class of 2010—the freshman class that year, not the class I would actually be entering. Harvard treated its transfers both as transfers and as students older than freshmen. At the champagne brunch in Annenberg earlier this spring, acquaintances and casual friends asked what freshman entryway I had lived in. When I told them...
...When I was considering transferring during my freshman year of college, I looked with disdain upon Princeton when I learned that it was— at the time—the only other Ivy League school that did not accept transfer students. I thought that it represented a brand of elitism that was unique to Princeton. That school remains Harvard’s only Ivy League partner-in-crime in this decision. And, outside of the Ivy League, top schools like Stanford, Duke, the University of Chicago, Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore all accept transfer students. Harvard should be as concerned...
...Harvard would do well not to close the door after freshman year: There’s a lot to be gained from transfer admissions by everyone involved...