Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal will be presented today at a meeting of a CHUL subcommittee, organized to consider transfer policy for freshmen dissatisfied with their House assignments...
Despite all the good intentions, it is perhaps inevitable that transfer students experience the same kind of confusion and frustration endemic to freshman. Says Alice Barton, a senior in Currier House, "One of the things that characterized my experience with Harvard was having to do everything myself. No one-was going to baby you. It was kind of bewildering to be confronted with so may intricate regulations...
Lenczowski, who feels there is still "a lot of room for improvement" in the transfer program would like to see transfers given specific academic advisers or at least given help in getting in touch with students in their departments before they have to chose courses. Without someone to warm them of the pitfalls of certain courses they can easily find themselves like Tim Solberg '76, a transfer from a small midwestern college taking three economics courses and calculus and swamped with work...
Perhaps the only issue on which all the transfer students I talked to agreed was the importance of maintaining a transfer program. None regretted having come to Harvard and all felt there are benefits to having gone to more than one college that aren't available to students who've gone one school for four years. Barton says, "I'm glad I came here with the perspective. I did, from a small, less self-conscious school." Her sentiments are echoed by Mina Carson, also a senior in Currier House. "I'm awfully glad and have been glad ever since...
...CHUL decides to enact the Yale plan, students should be allowed to transfer out of Houses they do not like...