Word: froshes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When pre-frosh decide to attend Harvard, they know that they are not choosing a school with a small and intimate liberal arts setting, where tenured professors instruct every section and student-Faculty interaction is the rule rather than the exception. There are drawbacks to attending a school as acclaimed, as competitive and as large as Harvard. Students suffer because Harvard professors are more interested in personal research than in personal interaction with undergraduates...
Fitzsimmons credited the College's generous financial aid program and successful pre-frosh weekend as factors in Harvard's impressive yield, which is consistently the highest of the nation's selective colleges...
...said the opportunity for students to observe the campus--either during pre-frosh weekend or on independent visits--is extremely important...
...create my own "Battle of the Springfests 2000." Among other colleges in the area, both Harvard and the trade school down the river (better known as MIT) brought bands to entertain their students, although our own Springfest was the only one that "just happened" to fall on pre-frosh weekend...
...They want to go to venues where they can get attention, and they know everybody is paying attention to pre-frosh weekend," he said...