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...class of 2012 will be the first to matriculate under Harvard’s new financial aid program that will cut the cost of attending the College for families who make between $120,000 and $180,000 to 10 percent of total income. Fitzsimmons said that the new initiative would probably boost yield, though he added that the effect might be muted now that Yale, Stanford, and Brown have rolled out similar programs...
Harvard’s peers saw an increase in early applicants after Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Virginia eliminated their early admissions programs. Yale’s early applicant pool swelled 38 percent, and Dartmouth had a record number of early applicants, according to Hernandez College Consulting...
...seen as the pinnacle of academic strength and achievement, membership in this selective community is a double-edged sword. The same qualities that brought us here—excellence, competitiveness, and ambition, to name a few, become liabilities when they burden us with high levels of stress, which 62 percent of Harvard students reportedly experience. Accustomed to success, we place unjustifiably high expectations on ourselves. Many of us have been told that at Harvard, no one will “hold your hand” and we have consented to this idea. Though regarded as some of the best students...
...Mark Twain Intermediate School in Brooklyn was served with a desegregation order, mandating that the school maintain a student body whose racial makeup mirrored that of the community—at the time, 70 percent white and 30 percent minority. In subsequent years, Mark Twain was converted into a school for the gifted, and demographic shifts—notably, a decline in the proportion of white students—have forced the school to turn minority students away. Last week, however, federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein overturned the ruling: “The defendants have complied with the 1974 remedial...
...game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more distractions. You type out your title. Despite exhaustion, the standard punctuation easily flows out as you make sure your unique thesis appellation conforms to the format of approximately 99 percent of Harvard thesis titles.“Wouldn’t it be nice if the grill were open?”: Starvation, Popcorn Chicken, and the Fantasy of Food in “A Moveable Feast” and Francis Bacon. Mmmm. Bacon.Not quite. Particularly since your thesis...