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Alan O. Dann '55, an active recruiter in Connecticut, says the alumni's athletic recruting efforts blend in with its attempts to attract high-caliber high school students with different talents. Much of the recruiting drive is channeled through the National Student Scholarships Committee and the Schools Committees established by each of the 80 Harvard Clubs around the country. A total of about 3000 alumni are active in recruting students, with about 400 to 800 primarily involved in athletic recruiting, Dann says. "We just keep our eyes out for names--National Merit lists, science fair winners--and we also read...
...others. Some sports, coaches note, need less of a hardsell than others, and therefore Harvard is able to get by with its low-key approach. Kevin Mackey, basketball coach at Don Bosco Technical High School in Boston, says "suburban sports" such as football and tennis are more likely to attract students who are interested in the long-term benefits of an Ivy League education. Other athletes need to be sold harder, he says: "Basketball, for instance, with few exceptions, is a game that the economically deprived now dominate. It springs from an inner-city situation. These are people that...
...retiring athletic director and former dean of students, credits the College's active recruitment program with helping Harvard adapt to the post-World War II generation of students. "You've just got to have a varied student body, and that includes athletes, if you're going to continue to attract the right kind of students, he says. As a result, the ancient taboo against recruiting in any form does not blind the admissions office to the practical needs of the athletic staff...
Though coaches may say they find the admissions process frustrating, Jewett says it still aims to attract talented athletes as well as others with exceptional extracurricular talents. The different, he points out, is that Harvard does not distinguish between athletic skills and other talents when considering its applicant pool. Other Ivy League schools are more explicit in their consideration--ranging from Penn, which is reported to reserve a certain number of spots in its freshman class especially for "athletes," to Princeton, which only considers athletes as a separate group when judging the applications its admissions committee considers marginal. Jewett maintains...
Momentum has grown to change this situation. The Committee on Women's Studies--a Radcliffe student group set up by the Radcliffe Union of Students--has worked during the past semester to establish an organized concentration in the field. The group has managed to attract substantial undergraduate support, some faculty interest, and at least cursory administrative attention...