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...lowest rates of any ethnic group, including whites. Golden interviewed several current and former admissions officers at these schools to tease out a justification for the numbers. As it turned out, no sweet-talking was required. Official after official went on the record for Golden on the matter. The reasons for the rejections? One Korean student, applying from a top prep school, got pegged at MIT as “yet another textureless math grind.” At Vanderbilt, a former admissions staffer offered that Asians “are very good students, but don’t provide...
...with the simulator, Harvard affiliates can take lessons without leaving campus—or going outside for that matter. The men’s and women’s golf teams use the simulator to practice during the winter...
...You’re sort of naturally raised to be machista, and it’s a matter of whether you choose to be feminista,” said Valerie G. Larsen-Fernandez ’08, the vice president of Latinas Unidas...
...You’d think a story about close allies openly rejecting democracy would scream “newsworthy” to any journalist, no matter what the political perspective—but you’d be wrong. Finding a story about this watershed decree took some diligence, some searching for that cursive mention in “world briefing” sections of newspapers...
...same logic applies to professors. To teach a class full of eager faces is an inspiring task; the knowledge that students simply don’t care about their subject matter is not. Professors become more likely to engage their charges in a heated debate, work closely with them, or just show up and teach rather than hand the duty down to a teaching assistant...