Word: transferal
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Come next fall, Massachusetts Hall will reopen its doors to its most deserving residents: first-year students. After the transfer of control of Mass. Hall from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to the University’s central administration in the summer of 2006, the University announced last spring that no members of the class of 2011 would be placed in Mass. Hall as freshmen. This discontinuation of a time-honored tradition for Harvard first-years was unfortunate for pragmatic and symbolic reasons, and the decision to invite freshmen back into Mass. Hall is one that reflects well...
...also have the drive and dedication to force their way through the system. “I really think it takes two months hard work,” says Irina D. Mladenova ’08, a special concentrator in Urban Studies, of the application process. As a transfer student in the fall of 2005, Mladenova began her sophomore year at Harvard as a History of Art and Architecture concentrator—but she quickly found her interests resonated more in the Graduate School of Design (GSD). After taking urban planning professor Margaret Crawford?...
Despite this seemingly bizarre bureaucratic transfer, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith wrote in an e-mail statement that “FAS and the University came to a very reasonable financial agreement...
...Over a thousand transfer applicants didn’t even have their applications considered this year. For many of these students, Harvard’s decision may be only a minor setback, but for others in less stable situations, like Max’s, the decision is potentially life altering. We don’t pretend to tell Harvard whom it can and cannot admit; ultimately, the housing crunch meant that some hard decisions would have to be made. Nonetheless, the current applicant pool deserves more than just a reimbursement. The damage has been done, but Harvard still needs...
...left out of the loop regarding decisions over which they once exercised influence. Professor John E. Dowling, who sits on the Standing Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, discussed at Wednesday’s open forum his bewilderment at the decision to close the College to transfer students this year. No one informed the Committee, and no one could say for sure who made the decision...