<p>I doubt my son would get in today! He had ridiculous stats but little in the way of ECs. Maybe he would still get in just because he isn’t Asian. The acceptance rate will probably be a negative number in a year or two at the rate it’s declining.</p>
<p>Thanks all, for your insightful comments. I understand this thread is for current/past students and parents, so will take my queries to the appropriate forum. Hopefully some of you will also visit these other forums and provide us some nuggets on the factual ground situation as you have experienced it.</p>
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<p>If this notice appeared in The Crimson, I missed it. My son called last week and was told he needed to wait for his shot until Monday or Tuesday, when the clinics are scheduled.</p>
<p>My son just received a jury summons. He’s not a permanent resident of Massachusetts, we live in California. Does anyone know if Mass. allows students who are only in the state temporarily as students participate on a jury? Very strange to us. He has absolutely zero knowledge of Mass. law etc. My son tried calling today the number on the summons and it was bzy bzy bzy. He had to get to classes so I called for him, but it’s ONLY accessible to phones within Mass. </p>
<p>we’re worried that this can be a long trial and this would affect his classes tremendously. Any suggestions or thoughts??? thanks!!</p>
<p>He might be able to talk to someone at the Law School. It may not be necessary for him to be a Mass. resident to be summoned for jury duty. Also, if he has to go and cannot be excused, it may be that Mass. has a “one day, one trial” rule, i.e. you have to show up for one day or one trial, not a whole week or two like some states. Lastly, he should be able to get out of any lengthy trial because of the problems that he would face in his classes if he were to miss many days. Good luck.</p>
<p>I’m fairly certain I’ve read on here on CC about other MA college students, who are residents of other states, being called for jury duty in MA. I don’t have time to search for those posts right now, but they’re here somewhere. </p>
<p>I also found some information on the Williams College website, so there may be something on the Harvard one, too:<br>
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Further information can be found on the Office of Jury Commissioner’s website at [The</a> Massachusetts Jury System II](<a href=“http://www.massjury.com%5DThe”>http://www.massjury.com).<a href=“I%20don’t%20want%20to%20confuse%20things%20here%20by%20posting%20to%20the%20Williams%20website,%20because%20it%20refers%20to%20things%20in%20western%20MA,%20but%20clearly%20MA%20law%20is%20the%20same%20there.”>/quote</a></p>
<p>Yes, MA require students who attend college in MA to serve on juries if summoned. MA takes the view that college students reside in MA at least 2/3 of the time–longer than in their home state.
I doubt that most CA residents know CA law, to take an example at random, so the fact that students from outside MA are not familiar with MA law would not be convincing. They have a choice of different times if the time they are called is not convenient, but they are required to serve. When I went for jury duty in mid-June a few years ago, there were at least 4 college students, including one Harvard student, who had been called.</p>
<p>You don’t need to know any law at all to serve on a jury in the US. The judge instructs the jurors on the relevant portions of the law in the later stages of the trial. In most states the only basic requirements for jury service is that you must be a resident citizen over age 18 and be able to understand English (or whatever language in which the trial will be conducted). There are exemptions and disquailifications that vary by state, but many trial attorneys actually prefer that their jurors NOT know the law.</p>
<p>My son was called to jury duty during his junior year as did one of his suite-mates. We had the same response you did; he was not even voting in Massachusetts. Fortunately he was participating in PRISE that summer and was able to postpone his jury responsibility until school was out and before PRISE started.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>Many students do not spend any time in their home state once they are in college. S’s college roommate spent the summer here in Cambridge (and stayed with us) because that is where he had his summer internship. It would caused him a huge problem to be asked to do jury duty back home. Oh, and he did not vote in MA, thinking that his vote would count for far more in his home state than in MA.</p>
<p>S2 is now in a different state (and he won’t be coming home in summer except for a brief visit). He was recently summoned for jury duty in MA and was exempted on the ground that he no longer lived in MA</p>
<p>“. . . thinking that his vote would count for far more in his home state than in MA.”</p>
<p>Might be time to rethink that one. ;)</p>
<p>The article says potential jurors are found on voter registration lists and drivers license lists. Are the names of MA college students made public on any other lists?</p>
<p>Shortly after his acceptance at Harvard, my son received an unsolicited email inviting him to apply for a job “editing” application essays. He had no idea how they got his address.</p>
<p>He did not take the sender up on the offer(!), but we were thinking back then, it would be nice if students’ identities could remain relatively private in order to avoid a deluge of junk mail.</p>
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<p>You’re so right! But he no longer lives here; he’s gone to another supposedly safe blue state (his home state is red but I believe his district went blue).</p>
<p>I was called for jury duty in New York while I was attending Harvard. I found it was very, very easy to postpone the service until I had a vacation, and even then they made it clear that if you had a good reason you couldn’t serve on a trial, such as that it would last longer than the vacation and you were a current student, they would be happy to oblige. I cannot speak to the CA system, but my experience with jury duty would indicate it is very unlikely to be a problem. (I would postpone until summer though).</p>
<p>I would also think that your son’s House dean would be a valuable resource to help him sort things out.</p>
<p>Admiral:</p>
<p>Being called for jury duty in NY would not have exempted you from jury duty in MA!</p>
<p>Jury duty in the midst of college wouldn’t be terrible just because of schedule disruption. My last gig as a juror was emotionally draining. Two college boys on trial for selling pot. Kids with strong futures, nice familie. They were clearly guilty and the sentence was harsh. So sad. I was just whacked out by it for a long time after. I would HATE to have my kid at school have to go through something of that nature. My 80-something parents, OTOH, would love to be jurors but never get called . . .</p>
<p>For some unfathomable reason, I seem to get called for jury duty every three years, and H never. Only once was I empanelled, and as an alternate juror. The other times, I was dismissed, together with others who had been called for jury duty after the required number of panels had been filled. This was around 1pm. MA has a one-day or one-trial system.
I was able to change the time and location of my last jury duty (I would have been out of the country on the first date).
The time I served as an alternate, it was a drunk driving charge.The trial lasted until 4pm.</p>