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What Ever You Want To Call This? Harvard Notes Possibly?


 * 1) 6% applicants admitted
 * 2) Most selective
 * 6,676 total undergrads
 * 1,657 freshman
 * 1) Medium-sized
 * 2) January 1 – applicant dead line
 * 3) Cambridge, MA location
 * 4) 1636 established
 * 2,100 faculty
 * 10,000 academic appointments
 * 1) School color – crimson
 * 2) Made crimson their color in 1910
 * 3) Motto – veritas
 * 4) Library – 17million volumes
 * 5) 11 academic units
 * 6) Income 3.7 billion
 * 7) Expenses 3.7 billion
 * 8) Name comes from John Harvard of Charlestown
 * 9) Died in 1638
 * 10) Left library and half his estate to the school
 * 11) Oldest school of higher education in U.S
 * 12) Statue of John Harvard in University Hall
 * 13) 360,000 alumni in U.S and other countries
 * 14) A bunch of presidents got honorary degrees
 * 15) Starting with George Washington on April 3, 1776
 * 16) About 20,000 students college wide
 * 17) Demographics-
 * 18) 16% New England
 * 19) 22% Mid Atlantic
 * 20) 18% South
 * 21) 11% Midwest
 * 22) 17% Pacific
 * 23) 4% Mountain States
 * 24) 12% International
 * 25) After 1st year students are placed in one of the 12 houses
 * 26) Over 97% of student choose to live on campus
 * 27) Each house has a resident master and staff of tutors
 * 28) Have to be really smart
 * 29) Only smart people there
 * 30) Drew Gilpin Faust President
 * 31) President is a woman
 * 32) 44 current faculty members are Nobel Laureates
 * 33) 2012 commencement May 24th
 * 34) Has their own athletic stuff
 * 35) The houses have their own histories and traditions
 * 36) Lots of things you can get a degree in
 * 37) Summer Programs for high school students near Harvard
 * 38) Museums for artwork
 * 39) Museums for science
 * 40) Museums for digital stuff
 * 41) Big campus
 * 42) 160 million dollars given to undergraduates needing financial aid
 * 43) 60% of the students got the financial aid
 * 44) There’s a church
 * 45) Professional schools afterwards
 * 46) Great teachers
 * 47) Hospitals near by
 * 48) Theaters near also
 * 49) And other useful places as well
 * 50) Nice website