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...transition from high school is more difficult than it looks due to the longer courses and trickier pin placement," Bozivich said...
...first-years like Buford have the opportunity to graduate from the College within three years, according to Deborah Foster, director of the advanced standing program. To be eligible for the program, students must have completed college-level course work in high school and earned satisfactory marks on Advanced Placement or international examinations...
...Language Requirement. Anyone who has suffered through the lingual hell of a Harvard placement exam realizes the problems in this area. There is no coordination between the material demanded by the language exams and the material taught. If German A or French A is enough to fill the language, the exam should reflect that...
Other "gross miscalculations" included Moscow's panicky fear of Jewish emigration; failure to realize that breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973 would nearly wipe out Soviet influence in the Middle East; refusal to negotiate an early ban on antiballistic missiles and placement of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles in Europe; and a habit of "fixating" on U.S. military research...
Kenneth A. Shepsle, chair of the Government Department, said he was also pleased by the ranking. He said Harvard's high placement was because of the quality of the faculty...