Word: transferals
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...Even though the College has stabilized the undergraduate population size by freezing transfer admissions, a growing number of students over the last century has rendered current House capacity insufficient...
...College’s Senior Survey asked me what the most memorable part of Harvard has been. The answer that popped into my head was “being here.” Which I wouldn’t have been, were it not for the now-defunct transfer admissions program...
...Existing programs in financial aid, academic support, and counseling certainly help individual students to adapt but are not sufficient to help develop a safe community for these first-generation college goers. The extraordinary essence that has enabled these students to thrive before Harvard will not readily transfer to their newly privileged roles as Harvard students without a comprehensive program to help them identify and navigate the transparent privileges and outsider status that confront them everyday...
...winter announcements of a tuition increase. This, however troubling for families that already struggle with the term bill, was still something that must take place for academic goals to be preserved. This mixing of goals was also apparent in the extending of Harvard’s temporary ban on transfer applicants, when lack of adequate housing ruled out the chance to accept students from a very valuable pool. After all, along with the tuition hike came increased financial aid, one area of University spending that we believe should be prioritized above all else, and thankfully continues to that students from...
Naïve scholar and teacher that I was when I entered Harvard a second time, I quickly received lessons in leadership that I hope will not be necessary to remember at Duke: When you take over a unit, fire or transfer anybody with power who does not owe it to you. Next, choose somebody with a high profile but tenuous backing to beat up on publicly. It cows everybody else into submission...