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Harvard has seen a 15 percent drop in international applications to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), in line with a pattern across the country that has left 90 percent of graduate schools facing declines in foreign student applicants, according to a national survey...
...international decline affected all major fields of study and was especially marked among applicants from China, which decreased by 30 percent at GSAS...
David Heitmeyer, who presented the findings of the GSAS study on behalf of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services, said that immediate processing of evaluation data, more accurate recording methods and easy availability of data to instructors and TFs were among the advantages of online evaluations...
...GSAS pilot saw a disappointing response rate of 13 percent, with some courses seeing zero students complete an evaluation. The highest response rate for any single class was 36 percent...
While several from the GSAS expressed concerns over the USA Patriot’s Act and whether or not the HGC had developed a stance on it, the council said that was a topic still open to discussion...