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That’s an embarrassing fact to acknowledge at Harvard, where “legacies,” the children of alumni, enjoy preferential treatment in the admissions process. Harvard accepts one-third of legacy applicants??��more than three times its overall admissions rate. The federal Office for Civil Rights, in a 1990 review of Harvard’s admissions practices, found that legacy preferences allowed applicants with “weaker credentials” to gain acceptance to Harvard. Tell any Harvard student that you’re a beneficiary of legacy admissions and he?...
...group Straights for Gays backing the proposal, and the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, of which Colantuono was a student member, endorsed his motion.However, on May 22, 1981, the Faculty Council rejected the legislation, although it simultaneously confirmed the commitment of the Admissions Office not to take applicants??�� sexual orientation into account.Speculation at the time suggested that the Faculty was afraid that conservative donors would withhold money or felt they should abstain from such discussions by sticking to the criteria of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which did not have a non-discrimination policy by sexual orientation. Professor...
...students had already gone through an application process and we had come to know them quite well, they were accepted without an application. We also accepted several other students based on their applications and/or on recommendations by members of the faculty, administrators, and the SAB, as well as the applicants??�� references. We then interviewed several hundred students. The applications this year were superb; I wish we could appoint all 480 students who applied. Rising sophomores and juniors will have another opportunity next year to become part of the program.We did not accept or reject anyone simply...
...yourself, then you rely on proxies,” Rinere said in an interview last week.“We made a decision to accept some of the students without an interview...based on several factors: their applications, recommendations by deans, members of faculty and the SAB, and the applicants??�� references,” she said.Fellow Brigit M. Helgen ’08 said that at the training session, Rinere “made a point of saying...there wasn’t any sort of nepotism involved.”Nevertheless, Rinere wrote in an e-mail...
...activities. Reform was urgently needed. But while the administration’s haste was understandable, the questionable and opaque process of selecting PAFs was not. Applications were due April 16. By April 18, some applicants had been accepted. Before the interviews began on April 24, a total of 90 applicants??��nearly half of the 190 that would eventually be chosen—had been given positions. The rest were offered interviews or rejected. Among other factors, these decisions were made based on recommendations of members of the SAB.Accepting new PAFs without an interview was a mistake. Brooks...