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...meal hovers a buck or few north of $10. Decide on your bowl of raw ingredients, choose a sauce, and the grill employees will cook them right in front of your eyes. For those with food allergies, there’s a special grill in the back, but part of the fun is noticing how there’s that stray head of broccoli from another diner’s creation. Not quality food by any (and we really mean any) stretch of the imagination, but it’s kind...
...That afternoon, you’ll attend the newly-crafted Freshman Convocation ceremony, followed by a dinner and reception. The Crimson can’t offer you much advice here because, well, we’ve never taken part in it before. But it’s sure to include much pontificating on the joys of University and collegiate life...
...played a seemingly hands-off role as an administrator, relying heavily on departing Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82—a former Goldman Sachs executive who served as Faust’s right-hand man in a post that she created. For the most part, she has continued to allow the deans of Harvard’s twelve different schools to make policy decisions on their own—reverting to Harvard’s age-old decentralized philosophy of “every tub on its own bottom...
...Some schools or college presidents or boards have used wanting to improve in the rankings as an administrative goal. Some schools are targeting their academic policies toward improving in the rankings. But I don't think that's really hurting students. The factors that you cited aren't really part of the rankings. Many people at the schools don't understand the ranking methodology and say things as an excuse vs. the truth. Generally, targeting the rankings doesn't hurt students. If schools are targeting ranking factors like improving graduation rates and improving freshman retention and paying faculty more money...
...knowledge or be able to rate each school in its category. It's based on the premise that since we have a big enough respondent base, enough people have some knowledge of enough schools that we get a statistically significant number of respondents for each school. There are subjective parts of education, parts that can't be measured by just quantitative data. The peer survey tries to capture that part of it. (Read "Google and Microsoft: The Battle Over College E-Mail...