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Unlike “Prep,” Curtis Sittenfeld’s decent but hackneyed portrayal of those ruthless pre-college years, “Special Topics” minimizes the ‘to be or not to be’ virgin dilemmas and queen bee versus wannabe showdowns. While that approach worked for the movie “Mean Girls,” the intellectually inclined will relish Pessl’s knack for language, unconventional arrangement, and substantial academic references...
...must sign an agreement pledging that they will not apply elsewhere.Since the Princeton program’s requirements are more stringent, its switch represents a more “dramatic” step, said Sharon M. Cuseo, an upper-school dean at the Harvard-Westlake School, an independent college prep school in North Hollywood, Calif., with no official ties to Harvard University.‘ALL THE COMPANY WE CAN GET’Harvard’s dean of admissions and financial aid, William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, said he is encouraged by Princeton’s move...
...seem to have realized it. Over the last century, an increase in diversity has been inversely proportional to the amount of students’ shared experiences at the College. For most of the College’s history, Harvard freshmen tended to arrive from a small number of elite prep schools, knowing each other and their families quite well. Most were Protestants, and so Harvard had a daily chapel. But as meritocracy gained traction within the admissions process, the communal institutions that were natural outgrowths of students’ homogeneity became outdated. In a revolutionary move in 1886, University President...
Cuseo, of Harvard-Westlake, an independent college prep school with no official ties to Harvard University, said “it’s interesting that [Princeton] didn’t wait to test the waters and see what other people would...
...with pre-meds. Yeah, sounds tough, but we hear you learn a hell of a lot. Plus, if you’re a humanities major, you have a couple of advantages: first, pre-meds can’t write for shit. Second, your philosophy lectures and History & Literature tutorials prep you just fine for the theory that Professor Arthur Kleinman throws down. Lit-critters, this is a fine complement to those depressing “Writing About Illness” seminars.For those who prefer Adam Duritz to Adam Smith, there’s Professor Stephen Marglin’s Social...