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...Corporation, which serves as the University’s executive board, decided to drop the program in large part because of concerns that early admission provides an unfair advantage to applicants from privileged backgrounds, Bok and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in a joint interview Monday...
...time now spent reviewing early applications—to further reach out to and recruit students who may not otherwise apply.Harvard’s change should also help stem the college admissions frenzy that has increased exponentially among high school students and their parents. Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that early admissions programs act as “fuel for the fire,” pressuring students to make decisions quickly, get in as soon as possible, and try to game the system. Though there still may be tremendous pressure to get into...
...Corporation, which serves as the University’s executive board, decided to drop the program in large part because of concerns that early admission provides an unfair advantage to applicants from privileged backgrounds, Bok and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in a joint interview yesterday...
...guided the B-division to a first place finish at the Captain Hurst Bowl, while captain and skipper Clay Johnson and senior crew Kristen Lynch’s second place finish in A-division helped the Crimson coast to a first-place finish overall in the event. Hobart and William Smith, Boston College, host Dartmouth and St. Mary’s rounded out the top five. “We made a statement to the other schools,” Johnson said. “To be really consistent in the top five with such a competitive fleet was really...
...first post the Pope had to fill was his own old job, to head of the Vatican office that oversees doctrinal orthodoxy. His choice of the then Archbishop of San Francisco, William J. Levada, was the first sign that Benedict would take his own counsel on key personnel changes. Defying conventional wisdom that the doctrinal capo had to be a European intellectual heavy hitter, the Pope chose the shy California native whom he'd known well when they worked together in Rome in the early 1980s. By choosing Levada it was also evident that the Vatican's theologian-in-chief...