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...shortly after his appointment as dean of admissions and financial aid, William J. Bender set up an alumni network to help recruit students from across the country, putting new emphasis on geographic diversity at the College...
...process that simply admits those with the highest test scores. During this century, the College has continually rejected the appeal of such a one-dimensional selection process, electing instead to identify a more diverse array of talents, skills and qualifications than test scores alone could do. As Bill Bender, Dean of Admissions from 1952-1960, put it in his final report...
...percent" to which Bender referred are that relatively small group of candidates who show unmistakably clear signs of academic promise of national, even international, caliber. All of those highly gifted applicants are admitted unless there is a serious flaw in some other part of their application...
Glimp, who himself headed Harvard's admissions office in the 1960s, credited former Dean of Admissions Bill Bender for the vast expansion in recruiting which began in the 1950s...
...between earlier- arriving English, Germans and Irish and later-arriving Italians and Jews did not have the obvious and enduring element of racial skin color. And there was never a time when the nonmainstream elements could claim, through sheer numbers, the potential to unite and exert political dominance. Says Bender: | "The real question is whether or not our notion of diversity can successfully negotiate the color line...