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...Breimer said. “You don’t make it a negative self-fulfilling prophecy by refusing to apply.”Total applications hit record highs this year at Penn, Princeton, and Yale—which for the first time topped Harvard in early applicants??though none of the schools scored as large a pool as Harvard. FIE HFAI!Fitzsimmons also said that tweaks to the recruiting efforts for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) contributed to this year’s dip in applicants. The highly-touted program, introduced by University President Lawrence...
Firms that recruit from elite business schools, for their part, would rather see applicants?? transcripts...
...struck by lightning, or being sentenced to death in Texas. This is disconcerting, as it means that the “best and brightest” in Cambridge—as we were not only the winning sperm but also a member of the top ten percent of Harvard applicants??are as vulnerable as anyone else. In fact, we are just as likely to get hit on the head by an acorn as is a student at MIT, if not more so because of our increased tendency to leave our rooms...
...such a raw barometer of an applicant’s background on the application implicitly emphasizes those of his or her characteristics that are least important to creating a diverse student body, in the grand scheme of things. It isn’t enough for colleges to claim that applicants?? responses comprise “just another piece of information”; so long as universities proudly publish their minority matriculation figures each year, this black-and-white indicator of identity will undermine efforts at creating real diversity...
...replace the superficial race question, college admissions officers should pay closer attention to applicants?? personal statements and letters of reference, whose purpose is to give the kind of insight well suited for making judgments about diversity. By now it is conventional wisdom that colleges seek diversity when making admissions decisions, so we can hope that applicants will see it in their own best interest to be forthcoming about their unique backgrounds and experiences in their applications...