Harvard University alumni

Karabel’s article, “The legacy of legacies,” one can see how unfair our school systems are jut base solemnly on the information that some prestigious universities use when making an admission decision about a student. In this article it mainly focuses on how universities such as Yale, Princeton and Harvard used a family legacy or involvement with the university to make decisions on a student’s admission application. One example given here is the one of former president George Bush. He was a…

school students, getting into a prestige university is one of their most important goals. Many students put a lot of effort in order hopping for admission to selective colleges in the United States. However, does your college actually matter that much. The episode “Does Your School Matter?” from the Youtube channel AsapSCIENCE tries to deliver the message that the college you attend might not have that much of an effect long term. The video looked at university average math SAT scores and their…

billionaires: Ivy League college leads the world with the richest alumni”, there is a very clear list showing the top ten colleges that has the richest alumnus. From the list we can see that Harvard is the first place, with 2964 multi-millionaires and a total wealth added up to $622 billion, and then comes the University of Pennsylvania, the Columbia University, Yale, Connell and Princeton. Six out of eight Ivy League colleges has the top 10 richest alumni in the world. However, how they…

disadvantages of attending Ivy League schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities(HBCUs). The research and its conclusions will help give insight into which type of higher education is better than the other and give future students the tools they need to make good decisions to help their paths to success. The results will compare different Ivy Leagues and HBCUs, as well as compare the differences in facilities, alumni,…

In academics, it is common for universities and universities to start contacting high school students who are beginning to think about university. Letters, emails, phone calls, and social media are all part of the experience for the prospectus to alumnus. It is important to a successful recruitment strategy to consider the key messages to communicate, the intended audience, and how the message is delivered (Whitehead, 2012). In fact, universities are leveraging social media in order to further…

Prodigy Finance is not a bank andwe don’t want to be. We offer community funded loans to international postgraduate students attending top business schools. The loans are funded by a combination of business school alumni investors, high net worth individuals, the business school community and institutional investors who have an interest in higher education. Students gain access to funding their postgraduate degree that they often otherwise could not afford. Students need to be studying abroad…

“Excellent Sheep”, by William Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at America's elite schools and explains how they are producing intellectual clones instead of creative intelligent human minds. When you think of Harvard and Yale you may associate them as the cherry on top when it comes to top-tier universities. While they may provide students with a great education, these educational institutions have been alienated from their true purpose: making college a place for self-discovery and critical…

work. College is really hard work. I had never realized this. Until I came to OSU, being an alumnus was just what I saw physically; going to football games, stickers on cars, and old photos. However, it finally dawned on me that all of these alumni had degrees. For the most part, the only students who succeed in college are the hard workers and brilliant slackers. However, whether the brilliant slacker or hard worker succeed or not, they still pay tuition and fees. This is what…

college. Nicolaus Mills’ research on who benefits from affirmative action of which compares and contrast Harvard University studies. Mills finding displays that Harvard’s African American alumni that only about a third of Harvard’s African American students were from families in which all four grandparents were born in America and have descendants of slaves. However, other studies have shown that Harvard is not unique in the preferences of giving African-American immigrants or children of…

analyzes how society as a whole views the higher education system and how it is (or is not) used as a time of growth in a young adult’s life. In Excellent Sheep, there is a lot of criticism revolving Ivy League schools such as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard; and how they tend to prepare their students for their certain career path. The author did a great job analyzing the different institutions within the higher education system, but he did an especially…