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...part, those efforts have been rewarded--37 Black and Hispanic students will register today as first-year students at GSAS. And the numbers are the best yield of minority students at GSAS in the 15 years it has been keeping records about the recruitment and admission of minorities, says Blackman...
...Blackman, who describes Harvard's recruitment strategy as "fairly sophisticated," says that the University's efforts to locate and admit minority students are geared toward reassuring potential applicants that academia is a viable career option for minorities. And she says that last year's success is a result of a renewed commitment on the part of administrators to beef up GSAS's numbers...
...lynchpin of the GSAS recruitment drive, according to Blackman, is personal contact. Assisted by between 30 and 40 minority graduate students, Blackman travels to colleges around the country and holds both group meetings and individual sessions with prospective minority applicants. She says that sending students out on recruiting trips has been effective because they can address their peers' fears about academia as a viable career option...
...have found that on-site visits [by current minority students] are effective because Harvard has a reputation as a really presitigious institution, and [many of the prospective students] in their own minds just didn't think that they stood a chance of getting in," Blackman says. "Our recruiters are visible proof that they...
Once GSAS recruiters have identified the pool of prospective applicants, they move into the personal contact phase, calling students to sustain their interest in applying and "acting as advocates" for those minority students who do apply, says Blackman...