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Occasionally, some of the data from the senior survey leaks out. In the fall, The Crimson obtained an internal memo that showed that seniors were generally dissatisfied with advising within their concentrations as well as their social life experience. Although the memo showed that satisfaction increased slightly from 2005 to 2006, it was impossible to measure improvement without a history of data...
...Crimson’s inaugural senior survey is an attempt to examine Harvard stereotypes through a transparent poll process...
...intention is not to mirror the official senior survey. For one, our survey is much shorter—just 31 questions. We also asked questions that were not broached on the College’s survey: did students seek out mental health services while they were at Harvard? Where will they be living next year? How much will they be getting paid? Though many of Harvard’s peer institutions collect and publish data on the career paths of Harvard students—Princeton, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania, for example—Harvard does...
...report on its Class of 2006 seniors, Princeton reported a 48 percent jobless rate among graduates heading into the workforce. The job market that unemployed seniors face this summer, however, is significantly more robust than last year’s. The 2007 National Association of Colleges and Employers survey, which polls businesses about their hiring plans, reports that employers plan to hire 17.4 percent more new college graduates this year than they did last year. Over one-quarter of respondents plan to live in New York City and 21 percent of the senior class plans on remaining in Boston...
...concerns of animal rights advocates notwithstanding, the biggest issue to emergency authorities are the people who stayed in New Orleans for Katrina because they refused to leave their pets behind. "To a lot of people, these animals are their children," Sneed says. A survey conducted after Katrina found that 44% of those who chose to ride out the storm did it because they could not evacuate with their animals. Should another evacuation be called, he says, "we have to make it more practical for people to leave than to stay. If one of the reasons people stayed was because they...