Word: fops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...composition of the FOP participant pool might also account for the lack of ethnic variety on the committee, committee members said. Many FOP leaders and committee members are former participants, and the backgrounds of program veterans do not necessarily reflect Harvard's student body, economically or ethnically...
...Ethnic diversity is definitely a problem, especially in the steering committee," said former committee member Paul A. Dufays '93. "It's difficult because it runs on a trickle-down process where many FOP leaders come from former FOP participants...
Potential participants must apply to join the program, and last year 342 of the 475 applicants were accepted. Steering committee members stress that a variety of factors, none racially biased, determine who gets to go on FOP...
...whatever the criteria, FOP participants tend to be slanted toward the top of the economic spectrum...
While 65 percent of Harvard undergraduates are on financial aid, only 35 percent of FOP participants qualify for such...