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...Quad at least offers an element of solidarity that the River Houses have lacked since randomization took hold in 1995. Harvard students used to pick their upperclass digs, and each House attracted a different personality (artsy, athletic, elitist). Now, Houses are little more than ordinary dorms, albeit remarkably nice ones, most with amenities like fireplaces and hardwood floors that other colleges only dream...
...potential members of the Class of 2004, welcome. Welcome to 800-person lectures delivered by Nobel laureates and to one-on-one discussions with Ph.D. candidates. Welcome to plush first-year housing and to not-so-plush upperclass housing. Welcome to Kuumba singing concerts and to renditions of the musical "The Secret Garden." Welcome to addresses by the Dean of Stanford Law School and to performances by Yo-Yo Ma '76. In addition to these activities and events--which could take place on any regular weekend at Harvard--the Office of Admissions has organized a number of panels and opportunities...
Students at Brown, on the other hand, participate in a curricular advising program, in which faculty members offer courses to first-years whom they will also advise, says Brown Associate Dean of the College Joyce Reed. Additionally, each student is assigned an upperclass "Meickeljohn" adviser who can provide more up-to-date academic advice...
...such possible resource is upperclass prefects. Most entryways have two or three older students to serve as scouts in the Harvard wilderness...
...prefect program is an interesting, but stop-gap measure," he adds. "[My prefects] are certainly enthusiastic, but I don't really feel that they've connected me to upperclass life...