The illustrious institution also has the alumni directory most prestigious students. Throughout the centuries went out of its ranks dozens of US and foreign presidents, 44 Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize a bunch and an ever growing number of influential figures in the political, economic, artistic ...
These results are based first on a ruthless selection. In 2011 almost 35 000 students tried their luck to be accepted in the first cycle of four years, the university college, and only 2150 - or 6% of applicants - were received.
A second admission process is then performed at the doctoral level, integrating one of nine faculties. However, again, only students to outstanding curriculum will have the chance to be accepted.
Conditions of exceptional studies
Study at Harvard at a cost: private university's tuition fees amounted to $ 50 000 for a student of first year, although an effective system of scholarships exist. In addition, the price is including housing, student housing at the University College dorm before joining in the second year, one of the twelve houses where they will live until they graduate.
Nevertheless, the study conditions are exceptional. Found on the huge campus the best teachers, high tech equipment, more than 90 libraries, sports facilities, theaters and several museums.
Harvard also has a host of clubs and associations where students have the opportunity to develop school projects. Whatever the turn will take his education, each student can also be confident to be taken at Harvard provides access to an exclusive club, that of a global elite, which it may exercise all the rest of his life.
Apply for Harvard
The admission process in the 1st year for American students and international students is the same. It requires complete a lengthy dossier including in particular the results of university application test (SAT or ACT) and a presentation test.
Also note that the Harvard Club of France each year using brilliant French students to apply and funds scholarships.
The former Harvard
Mark Zuckerberg
University College, Psychology Mention and Computer Science, 2002-2003
The story of the creation of Facebook is now famous. Its origin dates back to November 2003 when Zuckerberg, then a student in the first year at Harvard, decided to launch his room Facemash, site offering to vote for the sexiest female students of the university. The success was immediate and encourages its creator to improve and expand it, other institutions, and to leave Harvard before graduating.
Fewer people know that before joining the University, Mark was a student at Phillips Exeter Academy, a private school, where he developed the project "Synapse Media Player" to generate playlists automatically according to their tastes musical. Despite proposals for big names such as Microsoft to buy its project and recruit the young Mark has preferred to join the university.
Barack Obama
Ph.D., Harvard Law School, 1988-1991
The current president of the United States is one of the students who have joined that from Harvard PhD. A graduate of Columbia University, he then worked for several years as a "community organizer" in Chicago. So it is 27 years since he joined the Harvard Law School.
In its first year, Barack Obama was noticed by getting a research assistant position with one of the teachers of the law school. But it was the following year, when he was elected editor of the Harvard Law Review. It is indeed the first black student to hold this prestigious position.
His time at Harvard, Obama also keeps a very important network among students and teachers, who have been, are and will be many valuable support.
Are also passed through Harvard John F. Kennedy, George W Bush, Al Gore, Bill Gates but Natalie Portman and Jacques Chirac!
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