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Deciding to leave the narrow study of music, Capello applied as a transfer student to Oberlin, Swarthmore, Harvard and Yale in the summer after his sophomore year. He was admitted only to Oberlin's conservatory. Asking the other schools for suggestions about improving his chances for admission, he received terse written replies from Swarthmore and Yale. But from Harvard, he received an hour-long telephone call from Rosemary Green, director of transfer admissions. Green encouraged Capello to broaden his transcript with more liberal arts courses, and spoke with him at length about admissions procedures. "I felt encouraged after that phone...
...next round of transfer applications, Capello gained admission to every school to which he applied (with the exception of Yale, where he was wait-listed--adding to the long list of Yale's recent mistakes). He applied to major in several academic disciplines: cognitive science, philosophy, English, and music. "The choice wasn't a hard one," Capello remembers. "Harvard was my first choice...
...Liem said that such a request for a room transfer was "not true...
...spring of 1994, the Undergraduate Council proposed a calendar which would have shortened reading period, placed finals before Christmas and left a month--that's right, a month--between semesters. (A poll conducted a year before indicated that 70 percent of undergraduates favored such a change). As a transfer student, I've personally tasted the nectar of this type of calendar--and trust me, it's sweet...
McSweeney and Galluccio placed 10th and 12th, respectively, in the 1993 City Council election. When Councillor William H. Walsh resigned from the Council in 1994, Galluccio, not McSweeney, was given the empty seat because he received more of Walsh's transfer votes...