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Like any other Harvard applicant, I was well rounded??or insanely overscheduled—but jazz was a core component of my identity. I was in love with its lore, its improvisatory spirit, and I diligently practiced tenor sax an hour each day. I didn’t apply to conservatories, but my college list was limited to those that boasted strong jazz programs. I listened to the stuff almost exclusively until I was 17, and my application’s personal statement was 500 words of gushed, schmaltzier-than-Kenny G prose—I think...
...just, do that. But I can’t, because I’m busy, preening my CV or illustrating my libretto. And it’s all for you, Fitz. Give me something to work with here, something substantial—none of this “well-rounded?? hogwash. Something as knowable and measurable as the $20 bill taped to the inside of this envelope...
...group, likely full of Harvard-hopefuls, dutifully listens to the adage, an unspoken issue lurks beneath Harvard’s facade as a liberal arts institution: students attend Harvard to get a “well-rounded?? education, but often leave to never again think about, let alone use, said teaching...
...groups, I am willing to bet, have their own robust, bracketed e-mail lists. Big fish from small-to-moderate-sized ponds are now all swimming around together and founding After-School programs right and left. Academic prowess aside, Harvard admissions parlance divides students into “well-rounded??—those “who have contributed in many different ways to their schools and communities” and “well-lopsided”—those with “demonstrated excellence in one particular endeavor...
...would be incorrect to say that our Committee reviews Asian-American students by criteria different from those we use for other applicants,” she writes. “Nor does our Committee operate on the stereotype that Asian-American students are ‘poorly rounded??. We have too much experience with students of all backgrounds to make that assumption.”Golden’s experience, however, suggests otherwise. He writes that Harvard evaluators “ranked Asian American candidates on average below whites in ‘personal qualities...