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About 20 per cent of the Class of '83 is composed of minority students. Asian-American students will represent about 5 per cent of the incoming freshmen, blacks about 9 per cent, Puerto Ricans, Chicanos and Hispanic students slightly more than 5 per cent and Native Americans slightly less than 1 per cent, Fitzsimmons said...
...first time, a higher percentage of women than men in the Class of '83 will receive scholarships. Forty-two per cent of women will receive aid from Radcliffe while 41 per cent of men will get aid from Harvard...
...women has been climbing steadily the past few years, Fitzsimmons said. Ten years ago about 30 per cent of women at Radcliffe received scholarship aid, he added. Scholarship money for women comes from Radcliffe, while men get aid from Harvard...
Fitzsimmons predicted a drop of applications from 14 to 24 per cent within the next few years at colleges nationwide. "Harvard should be affected by the national trend, but we can't tell how much," he added...
...thirds of the Class of '83 comes from public high schools, while the other third attended private or parochial schools. About 5 per cent of the class are foreign students...