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Harvard's Goaltender: William R. Fitzsimmons '67

"With a crowd of 13,000 filling the Boston Garden, the premier Boston sports venue before TD Garden, Harvard hockey goalie William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 wowed the crowd in 1965 with 43 saves amid a...

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Moved: Can I still get into a good pre-med school if my freshmen cumulative...

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Four Years of a Foreign Language?

Hello! I'm a Canadian student applying to universities next fall (as an international) and and I know that Harvard recommends "Four years of a single foreign language". So far I have three years of...

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JFK's Application to Harvard

The Washington Post published an article today showing JFK's transcript and his application to Harvard:...

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Is Harvard possible for me?

I'm an Asian girl with a 3.77 unweighted GPA, 3.88 weighted. 1590 new SAT, 36 ACT, 800 SAT Math 2, 800 SAT Physics, 800 SAT Chem, 800 SAT French. Couple of 5s, 4s and 3s in APs (3 AP classes sophomore...

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How are Harvard students average HS gpa's above 4.0

If you do a google search of Harvard students average gpa it's 4.1. Now is this weighted or unweighted I thought, so again after a google search I see that they take unweighted gpa. How is this...

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Am I to old for Harvard?

Hey guys, i'm an 18 yrs old boy form germany, and for some time past it's my biggest dream to get into an ivy league uni. Of course i know it's pretty hard to get into these school but i think there is...

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What could I do during the summer to increase my chances of getting accepted...

Hi. I am currently a high school student in the 9th grade. I want to apply to Harvard in a few years, and I've been wondering what I could do during the summer to increase my chances of getting...

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Quality of the Visual and Environmental Studies programme?

VES seems like the perfect course of study: a panoptic art education with a heavy emphasis on theory and history... My concern is that it seems like VES is ultimately a very marginal part of Harvard...

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I need helpppp!!! should I apply to Harvard University senior year?

Lately I have been feeling depressed about being a good applicant for Harvard. I am currently a sophomore and would like to become an mechanical engineer/entrepreneur in the future. I want to start my...

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How does the rigorous of your B.A. institution comes into play for HBS App?

Hi there I just want to know, how does the rigorous of your B.A. institution weight in HBS App? I'm currently attending Boston University and I'm looking at the 2+2 program Thank you

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Harvard Rescinds Acceptances for At Least Ten Students for Obscene Memes

"Harvard College rescinded admissions offers to at least ten prospective members of the Class of 2021 after the students traded sexually explicit memes and messages that sometimes targeted minority...

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Harvard rescinds admissions for 10 admittees based on Facebook posts

Harvard College rescinded admissions offers to at least ten prospective members of the Class of 2021 after the students traded sexually explicit memes and messages that sometimes targeted minority...

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What will get me rescinded?

I've just been admitted to Harvard SCEA (YAY!) and I have two tests tomorrow. I plan on studying but I don't know if I'll do well. It got me thinking - what can get my acceptance rescinded? Do they...

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Harvard's Goaltender: William R. Fitzsimmons '67

"With a crowd of 13,000 filling the Boston Garden, the premier Boston sports venue before TD Garden, Harvard hockey goalie William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 wowed the crowd in 1965 with 43 saves amid a...

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Court Rejects Harvard's Dismissal of Admissions Lawsuit

"A federal court rejected Harvard’s motion to dismiss an ongoing lawsuit accusing the College of race-based discrimination against Asian Americans in its admissions practices. Harvard filed its motion...

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A teachable moment, but not censorship, at Harvard

"An Ivy League course on the consequences of dumb and offensive behavior on the Internet just played out at Harvard. And for at least 10 kids who had already been admitted to the university, the...

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Harvard for Engineering

I'm wondering why, since Harvard is top ranked for Physics and Math, isn't it top ranked for Engineering? Engineering is just application of physics and math. Secondly, would it be worth studying...

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African American Studies/ECs @ Harvard

Hi all, this is my first thread, so hopefully I'm not messing this up. I was just wondering what I could do to strengthen my ECs, and perhaps have them evaluated to know how "good" they are. As an...

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Harvard Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (HUMRP)

My son - adopted from Guatemala - was contacted by the HUMRP last month. My question is what does this mean? And what types of requirements, scores and qualities are they looking for?

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