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...program’s early application deadline meant a scramble to research as many schools as quickly as possible. “Being from the midwest, I don’t know too much about Ivy League schools,” she said.Now a freshman at Vassar on full scholarship, Ahmed said that Harvard might have been a possibility had it been a partner school.While Harvard’s peer schools, such as Princeton and Yale, use QuestBridge to access more low-income students, Harvard pursues socioeconomic diversity on its own. Because of such independence, Harvard may be missing...
Nine colleges have offered Sarah Simon, of Wellesley, Mass., a spot in their class of 2012: Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Princeton, Stanford, University of Chicago, Vassar and Williams. But she's a dancer--ballet six times a week, modern twice, jazz once--and Columbia University in New York City would give her access not only to an exceptional ballet program at its sister school Barnard but also to the epicenter of the dance world. Unfortunately, Columbia has put her on the waitlist. Though she's not whining about her wealth of options, Simon, a senior at Noble and Greenough School...
...Northeast Regionals have been good to the Harvard fencing squad, with champions coming in various weapons. This year was no different, with the top performances coming in the epee, as sophomore Billy Stallings took home the gold in men’s epee at the event held at Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Men’s epee continued to be a high point for the squad, as senior Teddy Sherrill took bronze in the meet, and sophomore Karl Harmenberg finished eighth out of 34. The Crimson was the only squad to notch three top-10 epee finishes...
...saber, 8-1 in foil, and 6-3 in epee. The women dominated Sacred Heart in saber, 8-1, and foil, 9-0, but lost epee, 4-5. On Saturday, both teams faced off against five other schools at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym. The men beat Vassar, 19-8, UNC, 15-12, and Princeton, 16-11, but lost to NYU, 16-11, and defending national champion Penn State, 15-12. The win over the Tigers was a significant victory despite not counting as Ivy League play. Saber lost, 6-3, and foil narrowly won, 5-4, but epee...
...most powerful governing body, and three members of the alumni Board of Overseers were charged with finding a new leader. James R. Houghton ’58, the senior fellow of the Corporation and chairman of glassworks company Corning Inc., headed the presidential search committee, joined by former Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson, computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64, former Duke and Wellesley president Nannerl O. Keohane, Georgetown Law professor Patricia A. King, Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72, economist Robert D. Reischauer, University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg...