Word: folders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...Letters. Then he's up off the chaise and inside the house. In another moment he's joined me at the umbrella-covered picnic table, a thick folder filled with newspaper clippings in his hand...
...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...
...much as we can of what we are asked, but sometimes it is impossible. Today, a guy said he wanted a roommate who "digs beauty', but it's kind of hard to judge from a student's folder whether or not he 'digs beauty...