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...With over 20,000 applicants and the lowest admissions rate in the country—about 10 percent??Harvard’s admissions officers face nearly impossible choices...
...President Aileen M. McGrath wrote in an e-mail. “There is not an affirmative action policy for gender.”The call for extending affirmative action to women was most recently renewed in 2003. That year, the portion of women editors fell to 25 percent??the lowest level in a decade. But the argument for gender-based affirmative action gained little traction. Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried said at the time that “this seems to be a manufactured issue,” citing the fact that a number...
...drugs" like Ritalin are on the rise on college campuses across the nation. There’s no consensus on how widespread these drugs actually are—some studies claim that only 3 percent of students use them, while others say it’s closer to 30 percent??but most researchers seem to agree that the numbers are going up, not down. A study at the University of Maryland showed that Adderall is the third most accessible drug on campus, right after alcohol and marijuana...
...requires all 250 enrolled students to attend lecture, according to Jacob M. Kline, the head teaching fellow. But attendance in the weekly lectures, which are not videotaped, is at a low. Government concentrator Carrie E. Andersen ’08 estimated that roughly 40 students—around 15 percent??go regularly. “There are maybe 10 people actually paying attention. The rest go out of some normative sense of duty,” she said. The weekly lectures in Gov 97b are new this year. Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffry A. Frieden taught...
Fitzsimmons says “99 percent?? of the communication between the FDO and admissions is to gather information to better advise current undergraduates...