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...overhaul of Harvard’s advising system this year, flanked by a bevy of advising bodies. In addition to counsel from the year-old Student Advisory Board, the dean will receive student input from “community fellows”—representatives of the Peer Advising Fellows (PAF) program who will attend monthly meetings with Rinere’s office, according to an e-mail from the program’s manager, Brooks Lambert-Sluder ’05. There will be one community fellow from each “dorm community?...
...maintain a consistent level of quality and has greatly facilitated the growth of the field by allowing instant exchange of information across continents and easy access to research papers. Hundreds of discoveries are reported first on the arXiv, and only much later (and sometimes never) are they sent to peer-reviewed journals...
...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...