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...Kabue ’06. Even if students plan on submitting an application, differing secondary education structures can put candidates at a disadvantage. “Most people don’t know how an American liberal arts education is structured,” says German student Werner Schaefer ’02-’03. “They don’t know how to get in and what is important when you apply, like extracurriculars, summer experiences and the type of college essay to write. So that only leaves a few people who actually make...
...than their home country—a sort of cultural inertia. “Being at Harvard for four years, you develop a lot of personal ties that make you reluctant to leave America, while at the same time your ties to home grow weaker,” says Schaefer, who is teaching English in Shanghai while waiting to hear whether he has been accepted to American graduate schools. “I don’t think it’s the University so much as the fact that you are living in the U.S. during very formative years...
Most governments make little outreach to their students abroad. “It is very hard to maintain ties with German institutions if you leave Germany to study as an undergraduate at Harvard,” Schaefer says, “and it would probably be better if these channels were not closed to us. Scholarships and programs in or by the home country for those who study abroad would greatly strengthen the ties...
...this is the same emotion that drives terrorists like bin Laden. I hope he's dead, but if he is alive, I hope he is never caught. I do not want to see the U.S. as hell-bent on vengeance and barbarism as the terrorists are. DAVID E. SCHAEFER Waterloo...
...Schaefer had just learned that her grandson had cancer, and she had to get a cell phone to stay in touch. "My stress level was through the roof," she says. The experience has completely changed the way she runs her household. "I feel like an attorney," she says. "I used to spend about two hours per week on my bills. Now it's tripled. I'm looking through everything...