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Schools such as Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) accept more applicants from Harvard College than any other undergraduate institution, although admissions officers in Harvard graduate programs say they do not have any official policy that gives preference to College graduates...
...student housing at Harvard is even more strained than that for undergraduates; currently, only one in four applicants can get into University-owned housing (apartments), and a small fraction live in the few dormitory rooms. There are over 3,000 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) alone, most of whom teach and research on the Cambridge campus, and we compete for dormitory and University-owned housing with students at all of Harvard's graduate schools. If tossed into an already overburdened, hideously expensive housing market, GSAS students will be forced to live farther and farther away...
Though it varies by department, tuition is often waived for students who teach--they also receive pay. Individual departments can cut off stipends after a certain number of years, and after ten years all students must reapply to GSAS...
Harvard offers other benefits. The departments' dossier services handle its students job applications for life, providing confidential recommendations and sending materials to potential employers, says GSAS Director of Fellowships Cynthia E. Verba. And an eager alumni network helps students get established in non-academic jobs...
...Bureau of Study Counsel offers a Dissertation Writers' Support Group. And Kimberly G. DelGizzo, associate director for Ph.D. advising at the Office of Career Services (OCS), says that the aid and resources are available through OCS and the GSAS Student Services, and that it is up to students to take advantages of the resources...