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Peterson checked his folders and found the only Philadelphia school where one student had been admitted and three rejected. Of the supposed radicals, one was sergeant-at-arms of his teenage Republican Club, another was described by his interviewer as "the Boy Scout type," and the third had no political information in his folder...
...have to be kidding. The folder tells us majestically that Chauncey Winston Minot VII was director of this, president of that...etc...etc., but not where they stand on anything. The alumni think they're reading somebody's resume, mark their X's...and lo and behold...two-thirds of Harvard's ruling body has sideburns down to their knees...
Every applicant is assigned an advocate according to the geographical location of his secondary school. The advocate is one of three men who read and evaluate an applicant's folder, after which a preliminary decision is made in a small sub-committee responsible for a geographical area. If a student is rejected at this level, he is probably through. His case will not even be presented before the full admissions committee unless new evidence becomes available or, as Whitla puts it, "the advocate decides after sleeping on it that he didn't argue a certain case effectively in the area...
Smith also said that the Admissions Office has given fewer ratings--advance estimates of chances for admission--to prep school students this year because of a change in Harvard's rating system. "We now ask that a student submit his full folder before we will give him a rating," he said. Previously, applicants from certain schools could obtain ratings be-before applying by submitting their transcripts and recommendations...
...thumbs through the folder and suddenly suggests: "This might be fun-nobody's done this. You could just do a paragraph on what this week's mail has brought...