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“[It will] force students to look ahead every term,” said Harry R. Lewis ’68, a member of the Faculty Council and former Dean of the College. Currently, students are given a week to “shop” classes before...
“I think this course planning tool is a much less disruptive solution than pre-registration would be,” Lewis said.
As Lewis explains, the 2008 chartering of SEAS broadly increased awareness of engineering at Harvard. And because Harvard does not consider engineering applicants separately—unlike other colleges including Cornell and Columbia—the creation of SEAS allowed Harvard to offer the unique opportunity to study engineering within...
“Harvard has the advantage that to be an engineer here, you simply apply to be a student at Harvard College, with all of the other resources that Harvard College students have,” Lewis says.
SEAS also makes additional recruiting efforts once students are admitted to Harvard. According to Lewis, the school attempts to have a faculty member call or e-mail every admitted student who has listed engineering as his or her primary interest.