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...Sleep gets sacrificed,” says section member Seth B. Blackley about the HBS lifestyle. According to Kim, section E usually has 11 80-minute classes each week, in addition to study group sessions every morning at 7:30 a.m. “Its not like the academic rigor isn’t there,” Blackley says. And indeed, U.S. News and World Report currently ranks HBS as the top business school in the country. But that does not mean that social life takes a backseat. “You learn as much outside the classroom...
...different goal—winning the title of Miss Rhode Island. Currently the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resource Efficiency Program coordinator of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Rogers said that her experience at Harvard helped her snag the pageant honor on April 22. Rogers credited the academic rigor at Harvard for helping her face the interview portion of the contest, during which a panel grilled her on everything from her platform to facts about her state. “Talking with so many people—both as an undergrad and what I do now?...
...enrolled high school seniors who do trial runs of the exam wouldn't be able to pass the real thing. Granted, the real test-takers have weeks or months of test prep for the GED that trial test-takers lack, but higher education has noted the rigor: 95% of community colleges and four-year colleges accept the certificate in place of a high school diploma...
...applications each year to fill just 1,675 undergraduate slots, with decisions between qualified candidates coming down to minute differences, the information marks one way for officers to measure their success in choosing a class. The feedback also provides admissions with a means to assess the rigor of high school curricula...
Trust the faculty on this one: Summers is not an intellectual. He is a reactionary who tried to promote his personal political agenda under the guise of intellectual rigor. He believes in rigor only in the sense of rigor mortis—the intellectual paralysis that makes an economist incapable of acknowledging that African-American history or contemporary French theater might be legitimate scholarly pursuits. Respect for careful quantitative treatment of scientific questions is one thing, but the application of economics to the philosophical question of where a university is headed deserves the scorn with which the Faculty of Arts...