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...ultimate loser in this situation will be the College itself. Potential Harvardians who have “made different educational decisions”—by attending a community or 2-year college, for instance—will be excluded for as long as transfer admissions remain on hiatus. Choking off the flow of late-arrivals will, as one writer lamented, cheat Harvard of a much-needed supply of “congenial, self-satisfied enrollees more interested in making friends than meeting recruiters,” a group underrepresented among four-year Harvard undergrads...
...reopening housing in places such as Massachusetts Hall, could have been employed in place of eliminating transfer admissions. By accepting a smaller freshman class this year, the Office of Admissions should be able to reinstate the transfer program in a year, instead of the current (at least) two-year hiatus. Most troubling about this decision is its timing and its lack of transparency. The decision was announced well after the application deadline, rendering applicants’ time, energy, and money moot. Almost all of the 1,308 rejected applicants were full-time college students balancing full academic and extra-curricular...
...lone assist, giving her the team’s lead in points for the afternoon.HARVARD 13, VERMONT 10The Crimson faced off against the Catamounts at their home field in Burlington. The two teams had not seen each other in competition for 12 years, and before the hiatus Harvard never lost to the Catamounts in 15 games.“We didn’t want to be the first team in the history of Harvard-UVM to lose,” co-captain Natalie Curtis said. “So we weren’t underestimating them even though they...
...Benedict H. Gross ’71 called for the creation of the review body, and in January, Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam announced the names of the faculty members on the committee. But Pfister has said the group is on a “little hiatus.” Sundquist said that the committee’s first scheduled meeting will be the week after spring break, when all its members are back in town. Pfister is out of the office until March 31 and could not be reached for comment. “We very...
...Harvard athletes, it’s time to shake off the winter doldrums and get fired up for spring. The track and field squad is enjoying a three-week hiatus following the Indoor Heptagonal Championships—the end of the winter season—to prepare for next weekend’s spring season kickoff at the Texas Southern Relays. But junior high jumper Becky Christensen is finding out the hard way that there’s no rest for the weary. Last Friday, the Texas native competed in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and brought home...