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McDonald’s All-America nominee Andrew Pusar comes to the Crimson following a stellar career at Seton Hall Prep...
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...
...felt in my freshman dorm. The housing folks had done a great job crafting a diverse group of first-year students for each room and proctor group–in my very typical entryway, we had a number of international students, musicians, science buffs, a few athletes, prep-school kids, and obviously, an equal number of women and men. After that year, I wouldn’t have minded continuing to live with the kids from that group. But many of us blocked with other people, and we were randomly assigned housing for a second time in our Harvard careers.As...
...Werner joined the U.S. National Team Development Program during high school. Before the pros, Jeff Halpern went to St. Paul’s and then Princeton. Bubba Sixsmith (Holy Cross) attended the Canterbury School, and Hafner and Scott Seney (Union) both chose Taft. The trend at the time was prep school, though junior leagues are gaining popularity with each passing year. But in either case, kids from the D.C. area just need...