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Sandoval found, after interviewing admissions officials, College deans, Chicano students and Chicano alumni, that these trends are most noticeable at Harvard. In other words, while the College tries desperately to integrate its student body, it is jeopardizing its ability to attract and retain students of different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds...
...although affirmative action has resulted in a dramatic jump in the number of Chicano students compared to the 1970's, enrollment at most Ivy League schools has levelled off in the past five years despite a larger applicant pool and a boom of college-age Chicanos in the national population...
HARVARD HAS THE LARGEST CHICANO student body about 120 in the College and, not coincidentally, it launches the most vigorous recruiting effort. Begun in 1971 by a few Chicano students, the Minority Recruitment Program has grown to include Puerto Rican, American Indian, Asian and Black undergraduates. It has full financial and administrative support from the admissions office...
...similar phenomena may have begun where Chicano students are concerned. For the previous five years Harvard had had very stable Chicano acceptance and matriculation rates. (Sandoval labeled this phenomena a "tacit quota system" to limit the number of Mexican-American students a figure respectable to other prestigious East Coast schools.) Last year saw a record number, more than half of thoseadmitted, however, choose to go elsewhere...
...building for minority organizations and special functions--could not believe minority student groups at Harvard had no automatic allocation of funding for academic and support services including freshman orientation events. At Yale there is a Hispanic officer for minority concerns under the Dean of Student Affairs. At Columbia, a Chicano from the Southwest fills the role of Dean of Students...