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Despite the large number of students that attended the most popular Core classes, only Berkovitch's "Myth" course required a lottery. According to Assistant Director of the Core Elisabeth W. Swain '63, 328 students were accepted to the course from approximately 450 applications...
Three Core courses--Foreign Cultures 62, Science B-15 and Literature and Arts B-18--have already been lotteried or will be lotteried soon, according to Elisabeth Swain '63, assistant director of the Core program...
...Swain said that fewer courses than usual are being lotteried this year, a fact which she attributed to students "spreading out" instead of "ganging up." Usually more Literature and Arts B courses need to be lotteried, she said...
...harshest lottery was in Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson's Foreign Cultures 62, "Chinese Family, Marriage and Kinship: A Century of Change." In that course, approximately 350 students vied for 135 spaces, Swain said...
...Swain said that the Watson course had to be lotteried because there was a limited number of qualified teaching fellows available. And enrollment in Literature and Arts B-18, a studio design course, was limited by shortages of art studio space, she said...