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...low” acceptance rates. For applicants, it’s as if every year the ceiling keeps inching higher and higher out of reach. With over 30,000 students applying to Harvard, college admissions can feel more like a labyrinth than a marathon—one in which the odds are overwhelmingly against your finding the egress. This year, out of every 14 students who applied to Harvard, just 1 was admitted. An article in The Washington Post recently asked if this meant that 1 in every 50 seniors in the country applied to Harvard...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Admissions: One in Sixty | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...with reasonable certainty—and this back-of-the-envelope calculation is certainly not meant to be definitive—that with 25,000 domestic applicants to Harvard, out of 1.5 million applicants in the country, approximately one in 60 of these individuals applied to Harvard this year. For us, these odds are a strong case for humility...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Admissions: One in Sixty | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...earlier version of the April 10 post "Admissions: One in Sixty" stated that one in 60 of "high school seniors" applied to Harvard this year. To clarify, these "high school seniors" were part of the pool of 1.5 million applicants in the country and not representative of the entire population of high school seniors in the nation...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Admissions: One in Sixty | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

While Mel serves as his taskmaster, she also claims she sees the whole ordeal as an “I-told-you-so” waiting to happen, which might be why she flips him off of a couch in one scene...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Ivory Tower | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...Rogers) gives a profound speech involving life, art, and outer space—and you’ll have to check out the episode to find out what Bay does when his perfect movie screening goes haywire due to some film-swapping chaos. We can tell you one thing though: there are a whole lot of expletives involved...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Ivory Tower | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

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