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...when they try to land a position after business school, young MBA students like Kafie have little trouble competing with their veteran peers??who average four-and-a-half years of work experience...
...Friday, the first members of the Class of 2011 will receive virtual thick envelopes in their inboxes; a few of these applicants—“legacies”—know today that their chances are a bit higher than their peers??. The application to Harvard College is not a short one, and that is for a good reason: There is no shortage of factors that the admissions committee examines in determining who gets in. Most important are indicators of a student’s academic success and potential. In addition, the admissions committee considers...
...value their leisure time. Admittedly, his philosophy seems both logical and enviable. The barometer by which Lewis and I measure a successful college experience—a satisfying academic and extracurricular life, exploration of the College’s offerings, discovery of passions, and development of meaningful relationships with peers??is exactly the same. But I reflexively approached Harvard by speeding up. This do-it-all mentality impelled me to a multiple-extracurricular-responsibility, no-semester-off, don’t-miss-a-moment college life. I strived to make the most of college, feeling that Lewis?...
...children’s programs too much, that you should always do what you love and enjoy, and everything else will work out. Clearly, a person sometimes needs to complete an unpleasant task to get to a more enjoyable one, and even more clearly, many of my peers?? current internships will lead to immediate job offers. Still, I worry that many undergrads are just hurtling forward, filling their schedule with activities they are supposed to be doing, making their lives so busy they don’t have time to figure out if they’re happy...
...committee before this particular search,” Houghton writes. “We thought it would be a good idea to get the views of the faculty and the students as we go along.”This summer, the students will formulate a plan to gather their peers?? input when they return to campus in the fall, according to the group’s chair, Matthew J. Murray, a joint-degree student at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School.Verba says he expects his own group will play a “very active...