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...Crimson went on to win only one of its next eight games in a span that included a trip to sunny Palo Alto to participate in a tournament that included teams from UC-Berkeley and Stanford...
Anderson has a special connection to Quest Scholars, which he says helped get him into Harvard--he participated in the Stanford University branch of the program during high school...
...PBHA program will be modeled after Stanford's. Twenty-two high school students with high academic potential and the SAT scores to prove it have been selected to come to Harvard for the summer. Here, they will receive help writing college applications and improving their SAT scores. They will also spend time on personal development through activities like field trips and faculty lectures by big name Harvard professors, including Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50, University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz...
...Stanford University, Yale University and MIT spokespersons say their schools have not conducted similar studies and are not aware of any plans to do so in the future...
...second incentive is a sense of competition with Stanford. That university, having been carried to greatness by its warm weather and proximity to Silicon Valley, has been Harvard's electronic bugbear, threatening to draw away students with promises of high technology and easy access to venture capital. Stanford has promoted technology (and especially the commercialization thereof) as its specific forte, and the recent appointment of computer scientist and provost John L. Hennessy as its next president was widely seen as an effort to capitalize on this reputation...