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...paper published in Science or Nature, today’s pre-eminent scientific journals, is oftentimes harder. Science, like much of academia, has its own admissions committee. Though over a million manuscripts are published in journals yearly, many more are submitted and rejected. The gatekeepers of science—peer reviewers who are reputable scientists and well versed in a particular field—advise journal editors whether to reject a manuscript outright, send it back for revisions, or publish it. And publication is everything in science. If an experiment doesn’t appear in print, it might...
...requirement that all students take a course focusing on the interplay between reason and faith—whether in wars of religion or debates over stem cell research—is unique among Harvard’s secular peer institutions. Columbia, which requires students to read parts of the Bible and Koran in its great books program, comes closest...
...admissions programs at elite colleges are unlikely to reduce stress, as Etchemendy suggests. While the small majority of overqualified applicants with clear-cut first choice schools will indeed feel more secure with an admissions offer in hand come December, the vast majority of early applicants to Harvard, Stanford, and peer institutions are not admitted. Having a rejection or deferral hanging over their heads for four months before any positive news can mitigate the bad hardly contributes to less chaos during senior year. Stress for everyone is lessened and—more importantly—evened out across all applicants with...
...Harvard received a C for HIV and STD testing and failed in two categories: condom availability and sex advice column in a campus publication. Contraception advice and availability won Harvard its only A, leaving Bs for the remaining three categories—health services website, sexual assault counseling, and peer counseling and outreach events. Condoms have long been available for free at University Health Services (UHS) and in upperclassmen houses. UHS and the student-run Community Health Initiative began providing free condoms to freshmen last May, before the Trojan survey results were published. Harvard, however, still received...
...being listened to, etc. But I’m not a spy. I usually go to the bigger functions or else just hang out with my friends...but at the same time, it’s hard to walk the line between being professional and being a peer. Meetings with deans versus hanging out with my twenty-or-so year-old peers...