Harvard

Harvard Sophomore & Junior Tutorials

For many students, the most rewarding form of instruction is the sophomore and junior tutorial, a small-group directed study in a student's field of concentration that is required in most departments within the humanities and social sciences. Teaching of the tutorials is split between professors and graduate students, and the weight of each party's responsibility varies with the subject and the professor. Juniors and seniors seek out professors with whom they want to work.

Harvard Freshmen Retention/Six Year

Freshmen retention rate 97 % Six year graduation rate 97 %

Harvard Professors

"You can have unlimited contact with professors, but it must be on your initiative," notes a biology major. "This is not a small liberal arts college where people will reach out to you."

Harvard Breakdowns

50/50 MF 15% Asian From 50 states and international; primarily North East 2/3 graduated from public high school

Harvard % Accepted

6% More than three-quarters of the current student body ranked in the top tenth of their high school class and two-thirds went to public high school.

Harvard # undergrads

6,600 udergrads

Harvard Harvard-Yale Game

As for football, the team has been doing better in recent years, but the season always boils down to the Yale game, memorable as much for the antics of the spectators and marching band as for the fumbles of the players.

Harvard Fun Facts

Called Cantabs. Oldest college in the US Primal Scream-collectivley scream night before finals. (dressed or undressed?)

Harvard Strongest Majors

Concentrations: Economics, Biology, Social Studies, Government, English, African American Studies, East Asian Studies, Anthropology, Music, History of Science All students must choose some sort of major at the end of their freshman year, a year earlier than most schools. The field of concentration can be changed later.

Harvard Dorms

Detailed roommate matching done by hand based on a questionnaire. Also parental questionnaire. The freshmen only dorms are close to classrooms. Entryways overseen by residential proctors. Every first-year class lives and eats as a single unit in Harvard Yard, a privilege made more enticing by recent renovation of all the freshman dorms. Freshmen now eat in Annenberg Hall, the new name for beautifully renovated Memorial Hall. For their last three years, students live in one of 12 residential houses, built around their own courtyards with their own dining halls and libraries. All the houses are co-ed, and each holds between 300 and 500 students. Designed as learning communities, the upper-class houses come equipped with a complement of resident tutors, affiliated faculty members, and special facilities—from art studios to squash courts. Each house has a student council, which plans programs and parties and arranges the fielding of intramural teams. Students are now randomly assigned (with up to 15 friends) to one of the houses, but some houses still retain a personality from the days of old when each stood for a particular ideology, interest, or economic class. Insiders says up to 7 friends called a "blocking group." Randomly assigned residential houses called sorting.

Harvard Athletics

Harvard has 41 varsity sports (21 men, 20 women), which is the most of any Division I school and the most women's sports. Both the men's and women's squash and crew teams are perennial national powers, and the men's ice hockey team draws a crowd of a few dedicated fans. The women's lacrosse team is strong, as are tennis, swimming, and sailing.

Harvard EA/ED

Has EA accepted around 900.

Harvard Head of the Charles

Head of the Charles crew race, the largest event of its kind in the world, where as many as 200,000 people gather to watch the racing shells glide by.

Harvard Extra Curriculars

International Relations Council. The Lampoon, The Crimson, Women in Business, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Harvard Student Agencies. Sports are a major presence on campus.

Harvard Intramural Sports

Intramural sports teams are divided up by house, and each fall, league champs play teams from Yale the weekend of the game.

Harvard Best Served Students

Lack of undergrad advising and inconsistencies among different course sections for a particular course

Harvard Hang outs

Loker Commons, a student center beneath the new Annenberg freshman dining hall Widener Library Study in Lamont Library

Harvard Overlaps

MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale

Harvard Popular Campus Events

Popular campus events include Welcome Back Event, Ethnic and Cultural Awareness Weeks, Earth Day Celebration, Yardfest, Cultural Rhythms, ARTS First - A celebration of the Arts at Harvard, Eleganza - A fashion show by Blackcast, House-based dances and formals, First Year Formal, House-based intramurals, Harvard-Yale Game, and the Housing Lottery Day.

Harvard Interdisciplinary

Smaller, interdisciplinary honors majors, to which students apply for admission, boast solid instruction and happy undergraduates too. These programs—social studies, history and science, history and literature, and folklore and mythology—are the only majors that require a senior thesis, although many students elect to do one in other departments.

Harvard Campus

The campus centers on the famed Harvard Yard, a classic quadrangle of Georgian brick buildings architectural mix, ranging from the modern ziggurat of the science center to the white towers of college-owned houses along the Charles River.

Harvard Core Curriculum

The core requires students to complete one letter-graded course in each of eight categories: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding, Culture and Belief, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Ethical Reasoning, Science of Living Systems, Science of the Physical Universe, Societies of the World, and United States in the World. One of these eight courses must also engage substantially with the Study of the Past. Since 1970

US News Summary #2

US News Summary #2 National Universities Harvard University is a private institution that was founded in 1636. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,658, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 5,076 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Harvard University's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 2. Its tuition and fees are $42,292 (2013-14). Harvard is located in Cambridge, Mass., just outside of Boston. Harvard's extensive library system houses the oldest collection in the United States and the largest private collection in the world. There is more to the school than endless stacks, though: Harvard's athletic teams compete in the Ivy League, and every football season ends with "The Game," an annual matchup between storied rivals Harvard and Yale. At Harvard, on-campus residential housing is an integral part of student life. Freshmen live around the Harvard Yard at the center of campus, after which they are placed in one of 12 undergraduate houses for their remaining three years. Although they are no longer recognized by the university as official student groups, the eight all-male "final clubs" serve as social organizations for some undergraduate students; Harvard also has five female clubs. In addition to the College, Harvard is comprised of 13 other schools and institutes, including the top-ranked Business School and Medical School and the highly ranked Graduate Education School, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Law School and John F. Kennedy School of Government. Eight U.S. presidents graduated from Harvard College, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Other notable alumni include Henry David Thoreau, Helen Keller, Yo-Yo Ma and Tommy Lee Jones. In 1977, Harvard signed an agreement with sister institute Radcliffe College, uniting them in an educational partnership serving male and female students, although they did not officially merge until 1999. Harvard also has the largest endowment of any school in the world.

Harvard Applications

Uses Common App and UCA

Harvard Popular campus events

Welcome Back Event, Ethnic and Cultural Awareness Weeks, Earth Day Celebration, Yardfest, Cultural Rhythms, ARTS First - A celebration of the Arts at Harvard, Eleganza - A fashion show by Blackcast, House-based dances and formals, First Year Formal, House-based intramurals, Harvard-Yale Game, and the Housing Lottery Day.

Harvard SAT/ACT

low combo 2080 M 700-800; CR 690-800; W 690-790 ACT 31-35