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McDonald’s All-America nominee Andrew Pusar comes to the Crimson following a stellar career at Seton Hall Prep...
...HARVARD has been reaching out to less affluent applicants since the early 1930s, when University President James B. Conant ’14 sought to recruit promising students from schools that normally flew below the Northeast prep radar. Committees of alumni were organized throughout the country to help find candidates for new National Scholarships funded by the College...
...concerted effort to attract disadvantaged students, Fitzsimmons remains sympathetic to the hurdles faced by applicants who hail from wealth. “We’re beating the life out of students with privilege,” he told students at the April forum, describing the regimen of test prep, Advanced Placement courses, and parental pressure in college-crazed communities where university acceptance can be more status symbol than golden opportunity...
Harvard’s allure persists despite the scuttlebutt that annually makes the rounds of college guidebooks and high school hallways: arrogant undergraduates, prep school snobs, little interaction between faculty and students, a social life descended from Puritan roots, a campus whose temperature is as chilly as its temperament. “Kids won’t pass up Harvard, even though they may not be elated the entire time they’re there,” says Katherine Cohen, founder of IvyWise, an admissions counseling service in Manhattan...
...strike Jordan wasn't surprising. U.S. military officials have viewed Jordan as an inevitable target for al-Zarqawi in his effort to export jihad outside Iraq. Jordan's King Abdullah II has longstanding ties to the U.S. (he went to junior high at the Eaglebrook School in Massachusetts and prep school at Deerfield Academy) and has quietly supported the U.S. war effort, despite its deep unpopularity with the Jordanian public. Jordan is a staging ground for the private contractors supplying and working with U.S. forces in Iraq. More crucially, it is where U.S. officers carry out what is, in Washington...