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...students.” Secondly, the editorial argues that college admissions are not solely dependent on quantifiable factors like SAT scores. Few people would disagree with this. However, the editorial states that colleges are “searching for students who will be leaders in all spheres of the world?? and have “Leadership qualities, extracurricular involvement, [and] achievement outside of the classroom”. Juxtaposing these statements with a discussion on the discrepancy Asian-Americans face in college admissions implies (intentionally or not) that Asian-American students lack leadership qualities and non-academic pursuits. Such...
Harvard is being a big baby, and has plugged its fingers into its ears, stuck out its tongue, hoping that the world??s military problems will simply disappear, but of course they won’t. Just because the faculty has an irrational hatred towards the military and the students an irrational indifference towards it doesn’t mean that wars—and Iraq, in particular— are simply going to disappear. Irrational because, given America’s position in the world, both are unacceptable options. Iraq cannot be abandoned; it must...
...only way for the situation to be improved—it is not capable of being perfectly “fixed” since it exists in the decidedly imperfect real world??is to shine a great deal of sunlight on a process that is now quite secretive. If universities want to make “holistic” admissions decisions, that is certainly their prerogative. In fact it is probably the only way to build a campus that doesn’t stink of depression as a quick visit to Caltech or MIT will attest...
Girard, billed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the “World??s Greatest Salesman,” spoke at HBS yesterday on how to achieve success in business...
...subtle homage to the “little red book.” Apparently it’s a national bestseller, and Time Magazine seemed to like it. Plus, who wouldn’t want “the unknown story” on one of the world??s all-time most notorious dictators...