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...dean of admissions at Harvard, "America wasted a lot of talent." Applying to college was less brutal mainly because "three-quarters of the population was excluded from these types of schools." Now 62% more students are going to college than did in the '60s, when Fitzsimmons was a Harvard undergrad, and while many of them head off to state universities and community colleges, the top schools are determined to tear down barriers to entry for the brightest of them. Admissions officers from Harvard, Yale and Stanford weave their outreach tours through low-income ZIP codes and remote rural areas, starting...
...WENT TO HARVARD AS AN UNDERGRAD. WERE YOU A LEGACY...
More than fifty years ago, when Updike himself was in his late teens, he was an English concentrator at Harvard and president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. As an undergrad, he was involved in an infamous conflict between The Crimson and the Lampoon that led to the kidnapping of a bird and a president...
...released. No one has any idea whatsoever what undergraduates as a group think about the proposed changes to general education, or a system of staggered dining hall hours, or the appropriate allocation of funds under the UC’s control. Someone should find out. 2. Think like an undergrad. Many problems could be solved much faster by asking undergrads how to solve them. Among the things an undergrad might tell you: stop ordering the bagel varieties that no one ever eats during Brain Break; don’t shut down shuttle service during move-out weekend...
...University is "buying an undergrad concentration on the cheap without committing appropriate resources," the professor said...