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Still, despite the increased competitiveness of today's admissions process, the traditional feeder schools continue to send students to Harvard in droves...
Couglin, like many graduates from feeder schools who are at Harvard, says that students in her class perceived being interviewed on their high school campus by Harvard admissions officers--instead of regular Harvard alumni--as a distinct advantage. Sending a team of admissions officers to New England prep schools for a day or two of interviews is Harvard's normal procedure; Couglin was interviewed by Assistant Dean of the College John R. Marquand...
Despite the potential advantages of going to a feeder school, some prep school alums now at Harvard maintain that on the whole they didn't receive an edge in the admissions process. In fact, they say, due to the competitive nature of the prep schools, it might even have been tougher for them...
...example, magnet schools in New York City like Hunter College High School, with 10 students in the College's Class of 1993, Bronx Science High School, with eight, and Stuyvesant High School, with 15, have all joined the large feeder school list...
...Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, a former dean of admissions himself, says that suburban high schools, not the older schools of New England, have become the true feeder schools these days...