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Lest anyone should forget that there is not such thing as a free lunch, or for that matter free toilet paper, students learned a few days later of a 9-per-cent increase in the cost of a Harvard education, bringing the total price tag for next year to more than $8000. Parents should not despair, though, President Bok said, pointing out that current population trends meant that in "10 to 15 years," families would have fewer children to send to college...
...GSAS officials slowly mull over the changes suggested in Rosovsky's report, the outside world is rapidly pushing change on the school. The number of applications dropped this year a substantial 11.5 per cent, and the shortage forced many departments to admit more than the GSAS standard of 25 per cent of the applicant pool. More graduate students than ever before dropped out at mid-year this year to attend professional schools. While Richard A. Kraus, associate dean of the GSAS, and director of admissions and financial aid, maintains that Harvard's graduate school accepts less of its applicant pool...
Several administrators are trying to analyze the drop in the number of applications especially among minorities and the consequences of accepting more than 25 per cent of the applicant pool. Kraus and Suzanne M. Lipsky, assistant to the dean for student affairs in the GSAS, blame the tight job market and rising college costs for the drop in applications but they say the drop in some minority applications resulted mainly because of new methods of defining minorities...
...increase in the number of black applicants, but she is not ready to admit discouragement over dramatic decreases in other minority applications. By reclassifying hispanics to exclude those who are South American or have Spanish surnames but are not Puerto Rican or Chicano, Harvard registered a 40 per cent drop in hispanic applicants. But Lipsky says recruitment efforts this year may actually have increased the number of "true" hispanics, an increase the statistics mask. Similarly Native American applicants dropped because to qualify as Native American this year an applicant must satisfy National Bureau of Indian Affairs standards and possess...
...large department chairmen aren't alarmed about a drop in the quality of students. Raymond Siever, chairman of the Geology Department, a department that accepted more than the 25-per-cent figure, says that while GSAS will undoubtedly continue to accept only the best applicants, the school may be tempted to fill a larger percentage of its positions with students who don't need financial assistance from the school...