A good way to get into a selective school is by first taking a couple classes at Harvard.
Sound farfetched? It isn’t. The Harvard University Extension School (HES) is one of the 12 degree-granting schools of Harvard University, which offers open enrollment into courses across 60 fields and into professional certificate programs in five subjects including nanotechnology. In addition, HES offers associate, bachelor, or graduate degree programs for those more ambitious.
According to a news item posted in the October 5th Korea Daily, "almost 1 out of 2 Korean-American students attending America's top universities drop out." This news arose from a doctoral dissertation by Samuel S. Kim, presented at Columbia University in late September. His dissertation was based upon a longitudinal study (a study that tracks a group of individuals over a relatively lengthy period of time) of 1400 Korean students enrolled at 14 universities (all the Ivies, Amherst, Duke, Stanford, Georgetown, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis) between 1985 and 2007.
