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Eliminating early action achieves diversity in two ways. First, it makes the process fairer for those students who could not apply early under the previous system because of a lack of money or inadequate college counseling. Second, the extra time in the fall gives admissions officers and athletic coaches the chance to recruit qualified high school students who would not typically apply to Harvard. While opponents of the decision warned that top applicants would be lost to peer institutions, “letters of intent” expressing interest in a student’s candidacy were sent in advance...
Beyond the actual substance of the decision, its timing and lack of transparency were also troubling. The fact that the announcement was made well after the application deadline seems arbitrary considering how long the housing situation has been stagnating. Although the College will reimburse the application fee, applicants cannot be compensated for the loss of time, energy, or additional fees associated with applying to college. Ultimately, this amounts to a default rejection of some students who might have been among Harvard’s best, undermining the many recent admissions initiatives aimed at attracting the strongest, most diverse, and most...
...look at students’ e-mails for disciplinary purposes—a clear violation of even a basic student right to privacy. This year also saw mounting pressure for FAS to outsource the provision of its antiquated e-mail services to a third party. FAS Webmail continues to lack the features—such as adequate spam filters or storage—and the convenience of rivals such as Gmail, a service which more than half of Harvard students use as their primary e-mail client, according to surveys. Harvard should follow the lead of the Graduate School...
...duty to the University, the 68-year-old from the English coast became the conveyer of a number of unpopular decisions, including the end of the Undergraduate Council’s alcohol reimbursement program and the two-year suspension of transfer admissions.Pilbeam’s reticence and relative lack of visibility over the past year have proven problematic for his reputation among many students, but respect and admiration for him runs high among the Faculty and administration, who have time and again turned to him as a steady hand to stabilize Harvard’s core institutions.BACKING THROUGH LIFEPilbeam...
...Rubin’s lack of visibility at Harvard—he has missed some of the few public appearances of the Corporation, including last year’s Commencement—contrasts with his prominence in the financial sector...