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Departments that drew student criticism on the 1997 and 1998 senior surveys have made changes to their systems, and other departments are in the process of evaluating their advising...
...cold? Embrace the new, warm-and-fuzzy, all-female non-final club, the Seneca. Next week the first application process will begin and you can get in on all that great networking from ground-zero. Get a copy of the application online at www.theseneca.org or contact Kirsten E. Butler '01 or Alexandra E. Seru '01, co-Presidents...
...with the words of my senile yet seemingly credible eighth grade math teacher Mrs. Kelly, I'd have to agree that "the more senses you bring into the learning process, the more fruitful will be the learning." Marking up textbooks, thus, is not a malicious act of destruction. Rather, marginalia are a personal art form wherein highlighting, underlining and even doodling trigger specific parts of your brain. The fact remains that we don't just remember ideas; we remember colors, tastes and sounds. Bet you still remember those magenta koolats you wore to the 6th grade dance. For shit...
Probably most indicative of the Ivy League's stricter admissions policies is the trend away from flexible early action admissions to binding early decision admissions. One by one, almost all members of the Ivy League have changed their admissions policies, making an already rigorous and stressful process confining and restrictive as well. By requiring students to select and literally bind themselves to a particular institution as early as October of their senior year in high school, early decision curtails students' response to personal growth during those last months at home with regard to college decisions...
...school's recent change admissions policy, as minor and as inconsequential as it may be, is a welcome recognition that college admittance can be a dreadful experience, and as ironic as it may seem, Harvard is just trying to ease that process...