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...Space has been another major concern, with a two-year moratorium on transfer students announced last month...
...always want to have space for some exceptional transfer students.” Believing that promise, 1,308 students competed for the 40 estimated transfer spots for the 2008-2009 school year, down from 75 two years prior. A month after the application deadline, bad news was sprung upon the applicants: Harvard will not be accepting any transfer students for the next two academic years, citing the extensive evaluation of the rampant housing crunch as the cause. Although the space crunch is a real and important issue, this decision is unwise, untimely, and inappropriately executed. We do not question...
...really admit the most talented students worldwide is unparalleled.”Fitzsimmons returned to work in the admissions office at the College in 1972 after teaching in the sociology department at Holy Cross for one year. He served as the director of admissions for 10 years beginning in 1974. He assumed the role of dean in 1986, after serving a two-year stint as the director of the Harvard College Fund.O’Donnell called Fitzsimmons the best admissions officer in the country.“We go on a golf trip and he?...
...News at the 1960 Democratic Convention, when J.F.K. became the presidential nominee. Later, while working for ABC News, he was the first journalist reporting from Tehran after the U.S. embassy was overrun and 52 Americans were taken hostage in 1979. Nightly broadcasts featuring his reporting on the two-year crisis later became the show Nightline...
...Amid the cacti and cows of the California desert, Thomas M. Miller ’08 came face-to-face with the liberal arts. Miller is a graduate of Deep Springs College, a two-year college that enrolls 26 Ivy-caliber men, who live together and maintain a ranch as they study fields such as philosophy and literature. Before he transferred to Harvard in 2006, Miller farmed and debated Plato with equal vigor. Now living in the Dudley Co-op, he came to Harvard to study Classics, having taken both Latin and Greek in an all-boys’ private...