{"id":218661,"date":"2010-01-15T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=35031"},"modified":"2010-01-15T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T21:00:35","slug":"harvard-college-to-enroll-small-number-of-transfer-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218661","title":{"rendered":"Harvard College to enroll small number of transfer students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning next fall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.college.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do\">Harvard College<\/a> will resume enrolling a small number of undergraduate transfer students from other colleges and universities.\u00a0 The College\u2019s transfer program was temporarily suspended in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on the Admissions Office Web site, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and Dean of Harvard College Evelynn Hammonds announced that a recent review has determined that adequate residential space is now available to accommodate a small number of students in the coming academic year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, the transfer program has been a source of superb students who have gone on to make important contributions to the nation and the world,\u201d Smith and Hammonds wrote.\u00a0 \u201cThe College looks forward to welcoming a new class of transfer students this coming fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidential space is essential to our ability to support a successful transfer program,\u201d they noted.\u00a0 \u201cHarvard does not admit transfer students to nonresidential status because, in important respects, undergraduate education at Harvard College is residential in character. Students learn a great deal from the House experience, which complements activities in our classrooms and laboratories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In general, students who have completed at<strong> <\/strong>least one year, but not more than two years, of full-time study at another college or university are eligible to apply for transfer admission.\u00a0 Harvard\u2019s generous financial aid policies will apply to transfer students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarvard seeks students with clearly developing academic interests that can be well served by Harvard,\u201d said Marlene Vergara Rotner, director of transfer admissions.\u00a0 \u201cStudents who apply should be enrolled in a challenging liberal arts curriculum that includes mathematics, science, and a foreign language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransfer admission closely mirrors that of freshman admissions, insofar as it looks beyond good grades and test scores and considers the qualities of creativity, intellectual curiosity, and independent thinking,\u201d Rotner said.\u00a0 \u201cOther factors weighed in the evaluation of transfer candidates include significant nonacademic talents and personal qualities such as a capacity for leadership, energy, character, motivation, and a sense of responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional information about the program is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.admissions.college.harvard.edu\/apply\/transfer\/index.html\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning next fall, Harvard College will resume enrolling a small number of undergraduate transfer students from other colleges and universities.\u00a0 The College\u2019s transfer program was temporarily suspended in 2008. In a statement posted on the Admissions Office Web site, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and Dean of Harvard College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}