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According to the Handbook for Students, “all candidates for the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science degree must pass sixteen full courses and receive letter grades of C- or higher in at least 10.5 of them (at least 12.0 for a degree with honors).” That means if you’re working toward an honors degree you can take 8 courses Pass/Fail...
There are a lot of other benefits to ending House dining. For one thing, costs would be reduced. As the Handbook for Students states, a large portion of the present Board fee is due to the fixed costs of operating 12 separate House dining halls. A reduction in meal plan costs and the wide array of other options available would make a Harvard education cheaper for all of us. That’s another blow to the convenience argument right there: a 50-hour reduction in one’s Dorm Crew sentence makes up for an awful...
...their slacker-lawyer handbook, the work-averse authors include tips on how to obtain reading summaries and avoid classes with mandatory attendance. Still, Marquart and Byrnes are pleased with the way they spent their sizable tuition. “I would recommend law school to anyone,” Byrnes says. “It was a great three-year vacation?...
Officially, coed living shenanigans are sternly frowned upon. But mixed-gender rooming can be legitimate under exceptional circumstances. According to the Handbook for Students, it all has to do with appropriate number of bathrooms and the judicious installation of locks in suites where “the configuration of space ensures a large degree of privacy.” Bottom line: couples who want it bad enough can usually figure out how to live together with the blessing of the administration, if not their parents...
...these factors have combined to obscure the true standard of what an A should mean at Harvard—“work of extraordinary distinction,” according to the Handbook for Students...