Word: freshmen
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...measure of quality -- the caliber of students it attracts -- Harvard remains in front. Typical freshmen this fall ranked in the top 3% of their high school classes. Even more impressive to admissions officers, 73% of the 2,184 accepted by Harvard (from 13,500 applicants) agreed to attend. This percentage, called the yield ratio, is the surest barometer of where the best students want to go. "We're disappointed, selfishly, because those students aren't enrolling here," says Jean Fetter, dean of undergraduate admissions at Stanford, whose yield of 60% is second to Harvard's. A Harvard admission...
Life here will then enter a brief lull until 1602 freshmen descend on Harvard Yard September...
...really looking forward to meeting the freshmen," said Crimson Key member Megan Jenks '89, a staff member at the 350th, who has been busy dealing with students of generations past for the past few days...
Legend has it that, many generations ago, a dean of the faculty took it upon himself to inform incoming freshmen that they were soon to become mere cogs in a vast and wondrous perpetual motion machine. The dean, Henry Rosovsky, is said to have told them, "You will be here for four years. I will be here for the rest of my life. The University will be here forever...
...College that bears John Harvard's name this week celebrates its 500th birthday, there would seem to be no reason for the present deans to revise any part of Dean Henry's formulation. Most freshmen still cruise through Cambridge on the four-year plan, and the University itself shows no signs of folding its camping modules. It would seem that Rosovsky, who later left Harvard to become commissioner of the Major Indoor Soccer League, hit at least two out of three nails on the head...