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...rarefied position among Harvard courses, this year’s Justice class set two new precedents. It became the course with the highest enrollment of all time at the College, and it imposed a cap limiting the class to just over 1,000 students and generating a sizable waitlist. As Harvard’s flagship course, such a cap can and should be avoided in the future...
...final figures may change in coming weeks depending on waitlist decisions and deferrals. Fitzsimmons said Harvard expects to admit 15 to 20 students off its waitlist this year, nudging the overall yield toward eighty percent...
While the Class of 2008 admissions program is hardly over—for instance, students are being admitted off the waitlist and some applications are being reviewed—the admissions office has already begun recruiting students for the Class...
Last week, admissions letters separated prospective Harvard students into two neat piles: accepted and rejected (ignoring the fuzzy purgatory of the waitlist). For those who were accepted, Harvard’s response was further proof of their invincibility. But at a school teeming with unstoppable Type As, someone inevitably ends up with the short end of the stick. For many, the cycle of rejection begins with the Freshman Arts Program or freshman seminars. Then creative writing classes, art classes and a cappella groups take their toll. By senior year, the ruthless competition to gain a foothold in the dismal...
...only hotel. Given its huge, funky rooms designed by onetime British Elle Decoration editor Ilse Crawford and unique services such as child care on weekends and private movie screenings, it's no surprise the hotel has starred in a Sex and the City episode. If the reported 500-plus waitlist is a turnoff, no need to leave the neighborhood: Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson--of The Park restaurant--have opened the porthole-punctuated Maritime Hotel on Ninth Avenue at 16th Street. With its 10,000-sq.-ft. outdoor public garden and '60s-style Pop Art decor, this place is already...