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...first-come, first-serve waiting list is the Housing Office's primary means of assigning housing to the approximately 3,000 Harvard affiliates who apply each year for off-campus housing...
...afternoon with a lecture by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feidstein '61, the activities will include receptions with the Masters at the House and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, and a discussion of senior year and early career experience with the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning...
Probably at no other university is it such anathema to live off-campus. A crucial part of a Harvard students' academic and social life centers around the Houses. No matter how such time a student spends in the libraries or in extra-curricular activities, there is no substitute for the good times and bad times transfers are new to Harvard, in effect virtual freshmen, the isolation is even worse. Instead of becoming part of "the Harvard experience," they are left on the outside looking in, feeling like second-class students. "I don't feel like a Harvard student. I feel...
There seems to be no solution that will alleviate the disappointment of those transfer students who are already here. But the problem, which is a few years old, does not have to continue indefinitely. The University knows that a Harvard student who has no choice but to live off-campus is not getting a full Harvard education, but year after year it admits so many students that this has to happen. A first, extremely useful step--for the alleviation of more than the transfer problem--is to limit the number of freshmen it lets in each year so that everyone...
Among other things, the complex proposal would seek to make off-campus life more palatable for every undergraduate not choosing to live in one of the 12 residential Houses. For transfer students, traditionally left "floating" on arrival because they can't immediately move into a House, the University may block off a set of its area apartments as a mini House community, complete with resident tutors...