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...result of the outage in February, services such as the my.harvard portal, FAS e-mail accounts, and FAS Web sites were disrupted—freshmen were not able to section for Expository Writing 20, the mandatory freshman writing class, and many students lost access to the Office of Career Services Web site in the middle of internship recruiting season...
...With this added uncertainty, Harvard admissions officials decided to offer 110 fewer spots to freshmen than the previous year. As a result, Harvard had the lowest acceptance rate in its history at 7.1 percent...
...from 78 to 76 percent—and a smaller number of admits, 200 high school seniors on the waitlist received thick envelopes from Fitzsimmons’ office late this spring. This raised the acceptance rate from the initial 7.1 percent to 7.8 percent. (Last year just 50 freshmen were admitted from the waitlist...
With both programs failing, students are caught between Scylla and Charybdis. Granting incoming freshmen a choice between the lame-duck Core and the skeletal Gen Ed will create even more confusion for students and their academic advisers, who are mostly in the dark about the process. The faculty’s own inability to articulate the new program does not help (it is disheartening to see administrators waffling on standard questions of academic eligibility and curricular options). Gen Ed has simply never been fully explained to students, especially those in the class of 2012, whom it will affect most...
Certainly, the College has made great strides in making higher education more accessible to those entering its freshmen ranks, but that opportunity amounts to little if the administration pays less heed to students once on campus. If students are to enjoy a meaningful collegiate experience, their lives should be enriched not only by a intellectually coherent curriculum, but also by a student body so diverse as to include those entering from other universities...