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Radcliffe also suffered a 45 per cent cut in its federal grant for the National Guaranteed Student Loan program which provides federally-subsidized loans to students at an interest rate of only 3 per cent. This mix-up stemmed from the academic year 1976-77 when NGSL funds were denied to freshmen men so Harvard would have enough NDSL funds to continue the low-interest loans to upperclassmen. Radcliffe had plenty of NDSL money for all undergraduate women, but a number of freshmen women thought they too were ineligible and did not apply for the loans. When...
Lyman says, however, that Radcliffe will be able to continue NDSL loans for upperclass women and will use Radcliffe loan funds to provide 3 per cent loans to freshmen women who would normally qualify for NDSL loans. Lyman says that it will be a cumbersome program to administer because Radcliffe has four separate loan funds, none of which has enough money to provide loans for all the freshman seeking NDSL funds. In addition, one of the funds was set up with the stipulation that it be used only for Jewish women and another only for Protestant women, creating yet another...
...thing in minority admissions and recruiting, according to Jewett, is to attract a large pool of talented applicant from minority backgrounds. The College admits about 17 per cent of all those who apply. Therefore, for every six applicants, about five must be rejected, even though four might be "admissible" judging by their talents. In short, if the pool of talented "admissable" minority applicants is low, minority admissions will suffer...
There are some peculiarities, however. A survey of the past five years reveals that the percentage of black students in the College has been fairly consistent. The Classes of 1973 to 1979 all were made up of approximately 7 per cent blacks, the Class of 1980 had a black population of about 8 per cent, black enrollmentdeclined to 7 per cent for the Class of 1981 and went up again to about 8 per cent for the Class of 1982. Similar consistencies exist in the figures for Hispanics and Asian-Americans which both hover between 2 and 3 per cent...
...such as Harvard's one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does openly." Dershowitz also alleges that Harvard's system has always given weight to children of alumni and professors, who in the past have been a fairly homogenous (white) group. "It's hard to believe 7 per cent is an accident," he said last week when told of the minority figures...