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High level University officials--like deans of individual schools--are almost always chosen from senior faculty. Without tenured minority professors, there can't be minorities in the most prominent University positions.
Once students are accepted to GSAS, the University pays for their airfare to Cambridge so that they can check out the campus and meet faculty and students.
GSAS officials say they emphasize all of Harvard's selling points--world class faculty, great research facilities, and superior libraries--when they are out and about talking to potential minority applicants.
"There are resources here that may not be available at other schools," Berg says. "And there's the opportunity to teach the best undergraduates in the country."
"There's been ample support where you don't feel you're at a disadvantage because you are an ethnic minority," he says. "Yes, I hear where students don't get adequate support, but that's not because they are an ethnic minority."