Word: putnam
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Despite his uncertainty, Bousso decided to make the cross-country journey last fall to Radcliffe’s Putnam House last fall...
This year, scientists at Radcliffe converged at Putnam House, tucked just off Brattle Street and conveniently located among the Cambridge goliaths of science—the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard’s facilities and MIT just down the river...
...addition to the group’s weekly meetings at Putnam House, fellows have participated in a lecture series held at Radcliffe this year which attracted physicists from across Boston, co-sponsored by Radcliffe and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics...
...keeping with this attitude, most students do not study for the Putnam. Though some universities give course credit for Putnam preparation, Elkies says, “As a matter of policy we don’t coach people for it.” Those who did study for it practiced with old Putnam problems, and you’ll never find “Math 14: Putnam Prep” in the course catalog...
Scoring well on the Putnam does help open doors. Many of those who scored in the top 200 recall receiving letters from government agencies—most notably, the National Security Agency—with summer internship offers specifically tied to their performance on the Putnam. Several test-takers mentioned the edge on their graduate school applications they hoped the Putnam would add. Gleason acknowledged the usefulness of performing well in that it “certainly helps people get into graduate school and with scholarships,” while reiterating that this “speed test?...