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...sixth digit in your Harvard ID number indicates your projected academic rank, as determined by the admissions office upon your acceptance. Since the admissions office must by definition select 800 students each year to form the bottom half of the class, administrators try to predict student performance, keeping careful tabs on actual performance to maintain its impressively high accuracy in such predictions. The fifth digit in your Harvard ID number indicates whether you were home-schooled...
...felt that the student in question poseda threat to the Harvard community upon return infive years, we would not have made the motion,"the letter said. "From our reading of thematerials, we do not believe that this studentposes a threat...
Last night in Boylston Hall, over 40 Harvard students listened to two speakers discuss the fairness of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and its overall weight upon college admissions at an event sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
Over 40 Harvard students listened to two speakers discuss the fairness of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and its overall weight upon college admissions at an event sponsored by the Institute of Politics last night in Boylston Hall...
...past few weeks in anattempt to sway staid Academy members.Unfortunately, the film's lack of gun violence,tanks and Tom Hanks will probably take it out ofthe running nonetheless.The Thin Red Line: Terrence Malick's moody,contemplative war film met with mixed reviews andunexpectedly poor ticket sales upon its nationalrelease. Though it boasts a star-studded castsecond only to Private Ryan, audiences(and, I bet, the Academy) have had problemsconnecting with the movie. Malick makes deeplypersonal films, without compromise. This is bothhis strength and weakness--it seems that thegeneral public isn't quite ready to get inside thedirector's head...