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...Shaun Rein (GSAS ’02) would have hated Harvard as an undergraduate. But that doesn’t stop him from trying to help others gain entrance to the College. Rein, who is half-Chinese, is finishing a book tentatively titled Xiao Shan’s Guide on How to Get Into Harvard. Targeted at students in China, the book promises to debunk the myths harbored in China about the Harvard admissions process...
...Rein realized that the best and brightest in China were failing to get into Harvard when he helped some Chinese friends prepare their applications. In China, where university admissions depend solely on test scores, Rein found that students with perfect or near-perfect scores do not realize these represent only one component of an American school’s application. He told his friends that they needed to show leadership, motivation and a desire to “change the world...
...don’t think Harvard students are that much more talented than other people,” Rein says. “They want to do big things in the world, but they’re not necessarily smarter.” Other popular misconceptions discredited in Rein’s book include: “I am not rich. Therefore, I could never attend Harvard University;” “If I’m not number one in my class, I will not get in;” and “If a famous...
...just about all the time in Dunster House, where Mark W. Kirby ’03 and Stephanie A. Stuart ’02 lead the Dunster Culinary Team in whipping up tasty treats for bi-monthly Dunster Open Houses. The rotating cast of 30 students is given free rein by House Masters Roger and Ann Porter, and the menu changes with the seasons. Favorite recipes prevail, though, including Kirby’s Red Onion Galette, which originated on the pages of the Deep Springs College Cookbook. Deep Springs is an extremely small, two-year, all-male liberal arts college...
Representative Ed Royce, a California Republican, sponsored a bill that would let employees roll over to the next year any unspent money. The idea is not just to encourage participation but to give health-care consumers an incentive to rein in their costs and build health-care savings they can draw upon later. Sadly, Royce's bill has been stuck in the rules committee for a year...