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“I was looking at a lot of the Ivies,” Cohen said. “Harvard stood out for me because my two older brothers went there, and it is respected for its academics.”
“It was a great feeling,” Cohen remembered. “I had been looking forward to playing for Harvard since my oldest brother, Steven, came in 2002.”
According to Tell, students want to be seen as organized, on top of their stuff. “It’s not true for everyone, but at a high-achieving school there is a sense of the importance of looking put together,” she says.
Of course, Tell’s is not a strictly literal observation. Many students wander around in sweatpants, and the scramble to finish a problem set or print a paper just before the deadline are part of the normal grind. For Tell, “looking put together�?...
From her desk at the Office of Career Services, Robin Mount, director of the Office of Career, Research, and International Opportunities, sees students lay a piece of paper on the table, revealing the accumulation of everything from internship experiences, GPAs, high school awards, and tuba-playing accolades. Students come to...