Harvard university

Description of Harvard university

Harvard College students have a remarkable range of backgrounds and academic and extracurricular interests.

Harvard is one of the few remaining colleges in the country to maintain a true need-blind admissions policy. Need-blind admissions means that freshmen are accepted on the basis of their scholastic achievements and other talents, not their ability to pay tuition. There are no athletic scholarships. Financial needs are met through a combination of scholarships, loans and term-time jobs. The financial aid package may cover up to 100 percent of tuition and expenses, depending on the degree of need.

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Harvard's principal academic units are:

Faculty of Arts and Sciences includes:
Harvard College
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Division of Continuing Education
Business School
Design School
Divinity School
Graduate School of Education
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Law School
Faculty of Medicine includes:
Medical School
School of Dental Medicine
School of Public Health
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

The study of engineering is both about creating engineers and exploring the two-way relationship between technology and society—essential for developing global citizens who can apply science and technology to society’s pressing problems.

Harvard Law School (HLS) offers an energetic and creative learning environment, a diverse and dedicated faculty—whose expertise spans a broad array of legal subjects. Students come from every state in the U.S. and more than 70 countries around the world to study at Harvard University. Approximately 1,900 students attend HLS each year: 1,680 J.D. students, 160 LL.M. students, and 50 S.J.D. candidates. The faculty includes 92 full-time professors and more than 150 visiting professors, lecturers on law, and instructors. The curriculum features more than 260 courses and seminars that cover a broad range of traditional and emerging legal fields.

Admission to Harvard Business School is really an invitation. HBS asks you to engage the sum of your talents, your experience and your dedication in an intensive, two-year program of transformation. HBS encourages you to challenge your assumptions, acquire new skills, examine unfamiliar possibilities, imagine unexpected opportunities and most of all, to assume responsibility for yourself and for our world.

Today Harvard has the largest intercollegiate athletic program in the country, with 41 varsity sports (21 men's and 20 women's). More than 1,300 varsity letters or freshman numerals are issued annually. There are also more than two dozen club sports, from aikido to croquet to ultimate Frisbee. Harvard is a member of the Ivy League, along with Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. Financial aid to students, whether or not they are athletes, is based solely on need. Harvard's athletic programs are financed not by gate receipts, but through the overall budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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Cambridge is a city with a rich history and long-established neighborhoods with strong ethnic roots and traditions. As an indication of its diversity, Cambridge public schools now offer ESL programs to students speaking 46 different languages. Today, with a population of about 95,800, Cambridge is Massachusetts' seventh-largest city. It is the site of Harvard College, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Divinity School, the Design School, the Law School, the Kennedy School of Government, the School of Education and the Extension School. Cambridge is also the birthplace of the state's high-technology industry. The presence of both Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has encouraged a wide variety of technical, research and professional firms to locate in the city.

First-year students enjoy the choice location at the University. They live in the Yard, Apley Court and the Union Dormitories, at the geographic and historic center of the College. Accommodations range from eighteenth-century buildings, which housed the earliest Harvard students as well as George Washington’s troops, to Canaday Hall, the newest dormitory at the College completed in 1974. Students eat their meals in the beautiful and historic Annenberg Hall.

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The First-year experience begins with Freshmen Week and a full “Opening Days” schedule complete with orientation and social activities. Freshman week has traditionally culminated in the President’s BBQ hosted at Loeb House. Throughout the year students can experience an array of social events from the Freshman Formal to the Halloween Catwalk. First year students can participate in the freshman musical and a wide variety of intramural sports competitions. In the fall, parents flock to campus to visit their newly matriculated sons and daughters during Freshman Parents Weekend. Students have the opportunity to invite their favorite faculty members to a Faculty Dinner at Annenberg twice a year. Students receive an upper class House assignment before leaving for spring break and have opportunities to familiarize themselves with their House during the remainder of the spring term through House events and traditions.

All the Schools of Harvard have their own residence halls.