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Harvard College consistently boasts a large and strong applicant pool, with one of the highest yield rates in the country, hovering around 80 percent. Many of the reasons for this are independent of student satisfaction, including Harvard’s reputation and its world-renown Faculty. As a result, Harvard is not pressed to improve student life as other schools are, and allows the administration to neglect certain aspects of the school that should be improved. The administration should not take advantage of the Harvard reputation in the recruiting process. Rather, it should work towards a constant improvement of student...
...recent years, Harvard’s yield has stood close to 80 percent, usually leading to a freshman class of about 1650 students...
...lives lived exuberantly can yield grand things, lives lived more quietly may produce something even finer. As Battaglia puts it: "Shyness is simply a human difference, a variation that can be a form of richness." Scientists studying shyness never tire of pointing out that Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were unusually reserved people and may have achieved far less if they'd been otherwise. "There's no question in my mind that T.S. Eliot would have qualified as one of the [shy] kids in our study," says Kagan. "Yet he also won a Nobel Prize." --Reported by Sandra...
...their concerns are wholly different. But we’re sure that professors, not graduate students, are far more qualified to comment on all of those issues. If the GSC was set on conducting a poll, it should have taken steps to tweak the questions in order to yield more relevant results. From the outset, the conclusions of this poll were fated to insignificance because they were not grounded in any clearly stated graduate student concerns...
...study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, found that the EPA’s new limits on mercury emissions from power plants could yield nearly $5 billion in public health benefits a year, as opposed to the EPA’s estimate of $50 million...