<p>I checked my recollection and the famous author I most had in mind taught a creative writing course at Harvard, rather longer ago than was my impression. It’s a standard response from the Harvard admissions office (which I last heard just Thursday evening) that one of the few exceptions to the rule of courses being taught by professors at Harvard is the expos courses, taught by published authors, so the admission officers say. A student from a strong high school program might not learn a lot new about writing in a first-year college course, or might learn mostly that a lot of other students didn’t go to high schools with strong writing programs, depending on which college one is talking about.</p>