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...From the very start, I wanted to be able to give back to Harvard and the [Chicano] organization what they had had a role in giving...
Sanchez grew up in a series of working-class Chicano neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles, graduating from a small Catholic high school. One teacher took a particular interest in his career and that the teacher gave him list of six colleges to apply to--Harvard was one. "If it hadn't been for that information, I wouldn't have thought to apply...
After he got accepted to Harvard other Chicano undergraduates got in touch with him, and helped Sanchez learned about the University which he had never seen and didn't know a thing about." Sanchez says he was reassured hearing people from similar backgrounds say that "socially I could fit in and find my own home...
...months after he came to Cambridge, Sanchez went back to California--this time as an undergraduate minority recruiter. Sanchez recruited every year he was at Harvard and as a sophomore and junior was the co-coordinator for the whole Chicano recruiting project. "For Chicanos here at Harvard," Sanchez asserts, "recruiting has always been an integral part of their existence...
Recruiting efforts by Chicano students have shown impressive results; this year the number of Chicano students applying increased by 23 percent. Still, "Harvard must never get complacent about its" recruiting methods since there are always more students to be reached...