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My understanding is that forced withdrawals at Harvard work like this: 1. If you want to come back you have to leave Cambridge and get a job for something like
by GabrielF00 14y ago
My understanding is that forced withdrawals at Harvard work like this:
1. If you want to come back you have to leave Cambridge and get a job for something like 6 months, and it has to be a real job, not a job at your Dad's company or something.
2. Any letter of recommendation that Harvard issues will note that you've been required to withdraw.
I don't see this as a forced vacation. The intent is that you have to have some understanding and appreciation of the real world before you are allowed to come back. Compared to many other schools, Harvard's penalties for cheating are actually very harsh.
- rkuykendall-com 14y agoI was under the impression that the de-facto penalty for cheating was expulsion. Without coming back. Without ANY "recommendation letters." You cheated, fuck you, get out. Then again, I went to a school which is struggling to raise itself up in the ranks ( or into the ranks at all ), so maybe Harvard doesn't have to take cheating seriously for people to take their graduates seriously.
- GabrielF00 14y agoActually, when I talk to people who teach or TA at other universities, they tell me that Harvard's policies are comparably harsh. If you plagiarize a paper at many universities, you are likely to get a zero for the assignment. That means that you might lose a letter grade in one class. At Harvard, professors were until recently required to report students to the Ad Board which generally led to being forced to withdraw.