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Members of the classes of 2009 and 2010, you’re it. When, late last month, Harvard’s admissions office pulled the plug on undergraduate transfer admissions for the next two years, it extinguished the possibility of future fresh faces for current sophomores and juniors. Tragic, perhaps, but apparently necessary, thanks to a campus-wide housing crunch. The overstuffed entering classes of recent years created a bubble that was sure to burst, and burst it did; thousands of would-be transfers’ dreams of ivy-encrusted greatness have been dashed...
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...
...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...