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...Kirschner offers a hypothetical example of a retired bank executive who is transitioning to a position as a development officer at a local college. The retired executive "would be interested in a seminar that helps her keep tabs on the world of international finance, her life's career, and a course that helps her understand new trends in philanthropy, her new job," Kirschner says. "Or she might have always been interested in art history, and now she can take a course on art history with a world-renowned scholar at Columbia...
...Kevin Sack, rolling on the river, finds a revel-in-the-details Gore who "finished his four-day riverboat tour of the Mississippi River with a floating seminar on tax policy." Rather than simply riding the tides of postconvention momentum, he has held a nautical forum on health insurance and given speeches on dry land about the environment and managed care..." And it seems to be going over...
...began a Harvard Summer School seminar Monday night called "How to Write the College Essay," an event that filled Sever 113 with high school students eager to hear a former admissions officer share the tricks of adroit essay writing...
...year old Greenough resident confidently pronounced after the seminar: "I will definitely apply to Harvard." Rumors circulate among the students in the Secondary School Program (SSP) that students have a higher chance of acceptance into Harvard after a stint at the Summer School...
Aside from the attraction of the name, Harvard does bring the general college application process to the forefront of SSP extracurricular events. Besides the college essay seminar, an event entitled "How to Get into Harvard" was open to students--preceding the seminar "The Top 10 Reasons Why Not to Apply to Harvard...