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Several recommendations concerned first-years, including a requirement that every first-year take between two and four courses that are not letter graded and a suggestion that upperclass housing assignments be made before entering the College...
...recommendation would shift Harvard to a Yale-style housing system in which first-years are assigned to their Houses before entering the College and live in entryways affiliated with their upperclass dorms...
...report cited the improvement of first-year advising by bringing the new undergraduates into more contact with upperclass students as one goal of this proposal...
...Only 31 percent of economics concentrators said “yes” to the question of whether their academic interests were discussed. Thus the great talent and promise students bring to the College is squandered. The formal advising system is an evident failure. Isolated geographically and socially from upperclass students, first-years do not have frequent access to informal advising...
This is a shame, because case-hardened upperclass students know well the nature of the College’s introductory courses and Core courses. Such classes are often very large, and in several egregious cases like the survey course “Principles of Economics,” professors do not have office hours. The Core Curriculum itself, by herding together non-concentrators, creates a culture with the worst possible incentives: Students are by definition not excited about the subject, and professors suspect...