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...better than I could have possibly imagined,” says Cooper, who then applied to Harvard as a transfer student. Not an easy task, according to Marlene Verega Rotner, head of the transfer admissions office on campus. “We had a six percent admission rate for the ’02-’03 year,” Rotner says. Cooper...
...midst of last weekend’s blizzard, Thenjiwe N. Nkosi and studio-mate James W. Heisey-Rotner ’04 have created an oasis in their Linden Street painting studio. A Johnny Mercer song plays on the radio as Nkosi brews a pot of tea. The walls of the studio feature black and white paintings depicting buildings in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Nkosi spent much of her childhood...
...Each year, the VUS admissions office receives around 90 applications from around the world—and from U.S. colleges, including next-door neighbors Wellesley and MIT—from students who want to spend a semester or year at Harvard, according to E. Marlene Vergara Rotner, director of the VUS program. Fifty-four candidates applied to study at Harvard this fall, and 17 were admitted and came. Out of those students, 10—a larger proportion than most years, according to VUS staff assistant Pia Setti—are international students...
...want our students to be welcome at other institutions, and it’s a form of reciprocity,” Rotner says of the VUS program. And the international applicant pool in particular is growing, Setti says. This fall she has gotten more requests for applications from Germany, the Netherlands and Italy than in previous years...
...Here, you live with a hundred other students. You have your own microcosm that is very estranged from the real world.” Due to the College’s housing crunch, however, none of the visiting students are guaranteed on-campus housing, according to Rotner...