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Harvard Law School hopefuls must now tell the admissions committee whether they took a prep course for the Law School Admissions Test...
...only stereotype I am aware of is that Eliot House is full of snobby rich prep school students. This is not true, Eliot House follows the College's ratio of public to prep school graduates. While it is true that there are some snobby and some very rich students here, there are no more than in any other house. Eliot House has a more diverse student population than perceived--we have the largest Puerto Rican student population on campus...
Since the days when the roster of any Harvard freshman class looked like a who's who of former prep school oarsmen, Harvard has been using other universities as its private academic farm system. When a new yak dung expert was needed, Harvard raised its glance from its teacup and and cast a look to the horizon, indulgently regarding the faculties of other universities before raiding them for their academic stars. Often enough those bush-league sluggers were only too happy to escape Madison, or Berkeley, or Chicago--places where nice tweeds were hard to find...
Kwan pointed out that he already knew some people at Harvard, because they attended his prep school. "It helps coming from Exeter, because there are a lot of people who you can talk to and ask advice from," Kwan says. "Even if they're not [from Exeter], though, I've found people here are friendly and willing to help...
...sport whose participants are usually prep schoolers who grow up to play the sport as yuppies in their exclusive clubs, Jernigan is an anomaly. The Dunster House resident attended a local public school where squash wasn't even offered. Instead, Jernigan participated in track and soccer...