Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though his words resound within my skull now, I didn't understand what he was talking about at the time; I could only think of living it up in Cambridge. After being rejected once as a transfer student I was applying again. The idea that I was 1) spending all that money, and 2) answering questions like "Describe your favorite book and why it changed your life irrevocably" and "Where do you see yourself in twenty years? What sort of tax shelters will you be using?" for the third time, all so I could attend a school whose name...
...Transfer students have first priority on the College's waiting list for housing this fall, thanks to a change adopted last year by the student-faculty Committee on Housing. Previously, transfer students came third on the list, behind students who returned to College late and students returning from leaves of absence, according to Thomas A. Dingman '67, assistant dean of the College for housing...
David Lipson '87, a transfer from MIT, said "it's definitely not fair" that transfers are not guaranteed housing by the College. Although he called his Peabody Terrace apartment "good", he maintained that "80 people overall [the original number of transfers on the waiting list] is not that much" for a university to house...
Bradford Swing, an assistant to the dean of the College who provides summer housing advice for transfer students and visiting undergraduates, called the number of new students "a sizable one." He said also that the University makes it clear that transfers are responsible for finding their own housing while they wait for on-campus openings...
...Another transfer student, Roy Sinai '87, agreed that Harvard clearly spells out the housing difficulty to transfers, but said some transfers pay as much as $400 a month for off-campus apartments...