Word: pre-frosh
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...This event should be at [pre-frosh] orientation, to show new students what there is at Harvard," Sinbad said...
...Pre-frosh weekend? The first sunny weekend of the spring just happens to be that weekend? First-years are giddy in the sun, hanging out in the yard playing frisbee, emerging from their rooms and behaving like college students for the first time since they arrived. Wide-eyed pre-frosh can't help but think Harvard isn't as bizarre as it is reputed to be. Then they come and discover the truth: the gray, the reclusive students, the stressed out over-achievers contemplating mediocrity. No playing in the sun here. And there is no sun anyway...
When Thomas was looking at colleges, Harvard was not her natural choice. It was the lesser of several evils. After visiting several campuses and getting food poisoning at one, treated like garbage at another, and just having bad experiences at the rest, Harvard Pre-Frosh Weekend turned out to be the least offensive. "I hated everywhere else I went," Thomas says. "I never thought in a million years that I would come [to Harvard]." At first, Thomas was snobbish about attending Harvard, but an experience at Filene's Basement one morning during that weekend changed her mind. Another prefrosh, annoyed...
...prefect, I got a nice hunter green shirt so I could dispense advice and plan study breaks in style. As part of the Undergraduate Admissions Council, I hosted countless pre-frosh and telephoned dozens of high school students to answer their questions about college. The T-shirt from that organization displays a large Veritas shield and the cheery "Welcome to Harvard...
...Once pre-frosh discover whether their financial-aid package designates loans, grants or term-time jobs, and whether they qualify for the Federal Work Study Program, the national system that subsidizes campus employment for needy students, they must begin making decisions about employment...