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News that the U.S. government has been tracking Americans' phone calls created static among our readers. Some criticized the move, while others hoped that it would yield a direct line to terrorists...
...might be nice if someone noticed that we existed.The sad truth is that I have arrived at Commencement with almost no meaningful faculty relationships. The sadder truth is that so have many of my classmates. And our college experiences have suffered for it. Great faculty relationships can yield stellar advising and inspirational mentorship. The absence of those relationships inevitably results in undergraduates lacking both. “If we can get the faculty—or, in the negligent departments, anyone at all—to pay more attention to students, the quality of the academic experience at Harvard will...
News that the government has been tracking Americans' phone calls created static in the Beltway and the blogosphere. Although we heard mostly from readers who charged Uncle Sam with putting constitutional protections on hold, some welcomed the data mining in the hope that it would yield a direct line to terrorists...
...neighbors and our friends at Harvard,” Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Deborah T. Auguste said yesterday. The new institution will operate as a school within FAS, and undergraduates will continue to enroll in engineering and applied sciences concentrations through Harvard College. Currently, the College boasts an overall yield rate of 80 percent, while only 74.5 percent of high school students interested in engineering end up coming to Harvard, Venky said. Approximately 70 to 80 percent of graduate applicants ultimately choose DEAS, and Venky added that he would like to see both numbers increase. The new school, if approved...
Eighty percent of students admitted to the Class of 2010 will matriculate at the College next year, giving Harvard its highest yield in over a quarter century, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said yesterday. Fitzsimmons attributed the high yield primarily to the expanded Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), which this year made Harvard free to all students whose parents earn less than $60,000 a year, up from a previous annual salary of $40,000. Of the 2,109 students who received acceptance letters, 1,684 will attend the College. Because Harvard...