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When Thomas was looking at colleges, Harvard was not her natural choice. It was the lesser of several evils. After visiting several campuses and getting food poisoning at one, treated like garbage at another, and just having bad experiences at the rest, Harvard Pre-Frosh Weekend turned out to be the least offensive. "I hated everywhere else I went," Thomas says. "I never thought in a million years that I would come [to Harvard]." At first, Thomas was snobbish about attending Harvard, but an experience at Filene's Basement one morning during that weekend changed her mind. Another prefrosh, annoyed...
...prefect, I got a nice hunter green shirt so I could dispense advice and plan study breaks in style. As part of the Undergraduate Admissions Council, I hosted countless pre-frosh and telephoned dozens of high school students to answer their questions about college. The T-shirt from that organization displays a large Veritas shield and the cheery "Welcome to Harvard...
...Once pre-frosh discover whether their financial-aid package designates loans, grants or term-time jobs, and whether they qualify for the Federal Work Study Program, the national system that subsidizes campus employment for needy students, they must begin making decisions about employment...
...better world would permit a full set of Freshman Seminars and a set of Senior Seminars. The Crimson Key tour may mislead wide-eyed pre-frosh, but Harvard is a research institution, and by coming here we have committed ourselves to a much lesser degree of contact with faculty than our friends at Amherst and Williams...
...board stressed the importance of reaching out to first-years and even pre-frosh in order to raise awareness about opportunities available to them in the women's group...