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...eliminate standardized test scores from consideration in their admission processes. For schools that have sufficient monetary resources and staff support to enable such an endeavor, evaluating each applicant on the basis of the “big picture”—without heavy consideration of standardized testing??is indeed ideal. In a perfect world, all schools would ignore standardized test scores and evaluate each applicant contextually, taking into account their educational history, socioeconomic background, and personal achievements. But with the exception of the 750 schools with optional standardized test score submission, it is a luxury...
...chance to make money, whereas students who do not enjoy writing or consider themselves “bad writers” may see 90 minutes of writing and the possible shame of poor performance as not worth the monetary incentive. Should the test results be overwhelmingly positive, more testing??perhaps involuntary—should follow...
...Dunster, Currier, Leverett, Eliot, Quincy, Adams, and Dudley Houses over the next week, according to Goswami. Drives at the other Houses and Annenberg are still being arranged, she added. Goswami said that the whole process—from the paperwork through the information packet to the cheek swab testing??would take potential donors 20 minutes. The initiative ran at four of Harvard’s graduate schools the week prior to Thanksgiving and recruited 180 donors, according to HBMI founder Sachin H. Jain ’02, who is now studying at Harvard’s Medical...
Next time you take a trip to the doctor’s office for a routine physical examination, you will no doubt have your blood pressure checked and your larynx ogled. But you will also have your blood drawn for HIV/AIDS testing??and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On May 9, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended non-binding guidelines stating that testing for the HIV virus be included among the standard battery of tests for Americans, age 13 to 64. The CDC claimed that 250,000 Americans afflicted with...
...University Hall, it’s clear that he had a wonderful clarity about—and concern for—the undergraduate experience,” said former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles. “The troubles of the late 1960s were testing??and sometimes distressing—for everyone in the Harvard administration, and we can only be grateful that Franklin Ford generously gave us more than two decades after that, as a distinguished historian and teacher in the College...