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...Stanford and Northwestern are even planning to reduce next year??€™s class size for their incoming Ph.D. students by 5 percent and 8 percent, respectively...
...record-breaking number of more than 29,000 students have applied for spots in Harvard’s class of 2013, up about 5 percent from last year??€™s 27,462 applicants, the admissions office announced today. With an increase in applicants but the same number of spots available, this year??€™s admissions season is poised to be even more competitive than last year?...
There are several possible reasons for the increase in applicants, including last year??€™s expansion of financial aid and recruiting programs like the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. This year 78 percent of applicants will apply for financial aid, up 5 percent from last year. After last year??€™s elimination of early admissions, applications rose 20 percent, a possible result of the increased emphasis on recruiting during a time when admissions officers would have formerly been considering early admissions applications, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...Last year??€™s intersession remains one of my favorite Harvard memories. I went up to a friend’s house in Vermont with six other Harvard students, only one of whom I had previously met. After a week of toboggan races, barefoot ventures through the snow from the sauna to the ice pond, and impromptu guitar compositions by burning embers at twilight, I came out with a new group of friends I might never have met otherwise...
...Since we had someone in the humanities/arts field last year??€“J.K. Rowling–it’d be good to have a governmental or political figure this time. Plus, I voted for Obama on the senior poll that was asking us our recommendations for Commencement Day speaker...