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...advance of an annual meeting between the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) and undergraduate admissions officers to discuss the freshman class, Assistant Dean of Freshmen Lesley Nye Barth e-mailed proctors asking for feedback on their students...
...admissions office in Byerly Hall sorts through upwards of 20,000 applications each year to fill just 1,675 undergraduate slots, with decisions between qualified candidates coming down to minute differences, the information marks one way for officers to measure their success in choosing a class. The feedback also provides admissions with a means to assess the rigor of high school curricula...
...came to Harvard with a stellar math record but failed an introductory college math course, it would raise the question of “should we look with even greater care at the transcript from this school and what it means.” But he adds that the feedback is “not a blunt instrument” and that one case alone might not change admissions’ views, and that “only in a small set of instances” is the information applied to admissions decisions...
...KNOW THESE PEOPLE’ The feedback residential advisers can offer about what has facilitated students’ success or failure at Harvard can be particularly valuable for students whom admissions officers think might struggle to adjust, according to Dingman...
...both Fitzsimmons and Dingman say the ongoing communication helped fuel the expansion of financial aid over the past decade. Fitzsimmons says feedback from residential advisers—who said in that in some instances students were struggling to succeed because of loans or work-study, and that some were feeling pressure to select concentrations that would bring lucrative jobs to pay off debt—was “one of the big reasons” for the expansion...