Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard and Radcliffe adminissions committees found themselves happily operating side by side under the same roof. They became so chummy that within little more than a year, they had merged into one Harvard-Radcliffe Office of Admissions and Financial Aid in order to put into effect the new equal access policy...
Women applicants to the Class of '79--the last to enter under dual, non-equal access system--numbered 3382. Applications from women jumped to 3696 the following year and reached a record 4901 to the current freshman class. The number of female applicants from the Class of '79 rose 45 per cent between the class of '79 and the class of '83, while for male applicants the increase measured only seven per cent...
Fitzsimmons attributes the increase in number and diversity of the female applicant pool to the combined staff, Harvard alumni recruitment of qualified women, and the admissions committee's efforts to generate more publicity about equal access...
...report concluded that because, once admitted, students shared the same University resources, the policy of separate admissions committees was "anachronistic." Although the committee's recommendation called for equal access to be instituted "as soon as practical that is for the admission of the class of 1980," the process of combining admissions committees, in effect, began more than a year before...
Mary Anne Schwalbe, former director of Radcliffe admissions and later associate dean of admissions and financial aid, adds another reason--greater opportunities for women. With accepted. Before the merger, the 2.5:1 ratio of men to women left only 450 places for women. With equal access, however, all 1600 places are available. Schwalbe, now director of admissions and college counseling at The Dalton School in New York, says that after equal access took effect, she found she had more "conviction" in recruiting. "It was easier to encourage women to apply because there were so many opportunities," she adds...