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...couple months ago, high school senior Lauren Edelson penned a much-read New York Times op-ed decrying the misuse of sales strategies in college admissions outreach at Harvard, Boston college, Middlebury and others, specifically naming the tendency to liken one’s school to Hogwarts. As an Admissions Office tour guide, I try to keep the Hogwarts references to a minimum. But from time to time, I, too, slip in one too many Harry Potter references, and I’ve heard many of my fellow guides do the same. Are we trying...
...better job of portraying what Harvard in particular is about than Yale’s does for Yale because it features very personalized stories of Harvard, and Yale’s, though it is definitely more upbeat and catchy, is more general. This trend toward further personalizing admissions outreach efforts is one we should follow...
...response to the new outreach initiative directed toward LGBT-identified applicants at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 emphasized Harvard’s commitment to providing information to concerned applicants without invading students’ privacy...
...Penn is] reaching out to students according to information the students volunteer, and the ones who would be comfortable enough explicitly stating their sexuality might not be the ones who need outreach most...
...This is a student outreach initiative designed to convince you all that…the best thing to do is explore diverse disciplines and study what you really love,” said Diana Sorensen, Harvard’s Dean of Arts and Humanities. “We want to show you examples of people who followed their interests and have gone on to have interesting and successful lives...