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...College has not yet projected yield for the incoming class, but even if Harvard continues to admit 2,100 freshmen as it has in years past, the admissions rate would plunge to 7.7 percent, down from 9.1 percent last year and 11.4 percent 10 years...
Princeton and Virginia saw their applicant pools rise by six and four percent, respectively. Other top schools have also seen major jumps in applicants, with the University of Chicago and Amherst College recording 18 percent and 17 percent increases...
Fitzsimmons said that effects of most new programs are usually not fully seen for three to five years after their inception, though he noted that there has been a 33-percent increase in the number of students whose families earn under $80,000 in the past three years, and that these undergraduate now comprise roughly 25 percent of the student body...
...members. Simmons’ election on Tuesday also gave her an automatic seat as chair of the School Committee, where she served from 1992 to 2001. Last October, Cambridge voters elected an all-white committee to govern the city’s school district, where minorities make up 64 percent of the student population. Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 said she had worried that the composition of the committee could alienate some families. “Having Denise on the board as chair will make a big difference,” Nolan said. Simmons will also...
...team behind Harvard’s “Q” course evaluation system is trying to persuade undergraduates to offer a little more feedback this time around.Professors and administrators hope the new efforts will revive the guide, which has suffered from low response rates. Last spring, 62 percent of course evaluations were at least partially filled out, according to the Office of the Registrar.“They’re low,” said interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam. “They’re never going to be 100 percent...