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...Harvard students’ view of their own success in the college admissions cockfight. We are selfish when it comes to rooming and selfless on the subject of transfer admissions because we’re embarrassed to be among higher education’s Elect, the less-than-ten percent of the applicant pool that did the impossible and got into Harvard...
...business at P&G? We try to grow our organic sales, which means--not including any acquisition, not including any currency, all of that--4% to 6% a year in markets that grow a couple of percent a year. So we're obviously trying to build our share. We try to grow our earnings per share by double digits. We have very comfortably been doing that this year. And we think we'll finish the year and deliver that...
...among people who are so smart and accomplished,” said Marina Fisher ’09, one of the juniors to be inducted into the society. There will be another election in the fall and one next spring to bring the total number of inductees to 10 percent of the graduating class. “Being in the Junior 24 is traditionally and historically perhaps the highest academic award or honor that we have,” Coakley said. Students are first selected for candidacy based on their GPA, according to Coakley. Students are divided into...
With a national divorce rate that has hovered between 40 and 50 percent in recent years, the state of marriage in the United States today is abysmal. This trend is especially foreboding for young people—like myself—who one day hope to have happy and healthy relationships with their spouse and maybe even raise normal, well-adjusted children...
...Vanderlick said. In 2003, Yale launched a one billion-dollar initiative dedicated to improving science, engineering, and medicine at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. According to Yale spokeswoman Janet R. Emanuel, the new SEAS is one part of that initiative, which also aims to expand faculty by 10 percent and create a new building. While the engineering school will remain as a part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the transition to school status will afford Yale’s SEAS more opportunities to work with other departments and schools within the university. “Engineers...