Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite all these handicaps, the students are found and they come--most of them, anyway--to Harvard. Though their grade average here has lagged behind the overall class average, it has been far ahead of what it was predicted to be. The gamble fund students have become student government leaders, HSA executives, debate officers, leading drama figures, and varsity and House athletes. One of them became a Rhodes scholar...
Despite the expense--and the huge initial risk--the Harvard community may have benefited from the gamble-fund as much as the individual students. First, the experiment has focused attention on aid to the student, particularly scholarship students. "Because of programs like this," Briggs says, "Harvard facilities have become geared to help people." He notes that counseling services have especially improved. As a partial result, the percentage of all scholarship students who stay for four years has increased...
Second, the gamble-fund students may have subtly helped alter the whole atmosphere of Harvard admissions. "There was some question several years ago," says Dean Glimp, "whether Harvard was going to become just a 700 SAT score college. But a program like this makes a virtue of weak credentials you can understand on other grounds...
Long before the gamble fund, colleges occasionally found and admitted a student with no money and dubious credentials. But according to Glimp, "what Harvard did officially helped to solidify what other colleges were doing already...
Twenty years ago Harvard brought a "risk" from a small farm in the Midwest. Today he is a well-known Ivy League professor, and if Briggs, Glimp, and the gamble fund's donor have their way, college faculties in the next two decades will be full of the same kinds of risks