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...Sciences has fallen steadily, and figures released last week suggest that this year will be worst of all. In a year when applications in general have remained substantially the same as last year, the number of black applicants to the College has plunged 25 per cent and at the GSAS an appalling 36 per cent. At the most, only 12 black students--a drop of 50 per cent from last year--will enter the graduate school next year. And although Harvard admissions officers are still in the process of choosing the Class of 1979, they said last week that...
...this was the year when the College devoted more money than ever before to local recruitment efforts. Between $2000 and $2500 was channeled through the admissions office to a special subcommittee of the Association of Afro-American students for undergraduates to recruit. This was also the year when the GSAS specially appointed a minority recruiter to visit numerous colleges and universities, trying to persuade qualified minority candidates to apply here. For the first time, the GSAS this year made use of the Minority Students Locater Test Service, which provides names of minority students at universities for a fee. The statistics...
...GSAS, the culprits are the individual departments' faculties, which are ultimately responsible for admitting graduate students. Phillip T. Gay, the minority recruiter for the GSAS, realized the departments would be problem when he took the job, but because he was not involved in the admissions process, he could not do anything about it. The 48 departments of the GSAS each admit their own graduate students, and any centralized recruiting effort was bound to fail. But a centralized recruiting policy is not so much to blame as the faculty members who make decisions on admissions. According to Gay, Peter S. McKinney...
...statement provoked Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, to say that the graduate school's centralized recruiting plan, begun this fall, was unsuccessful and that next year the school will try a new system, this time perhaps without a recruiter...
...said the number of blacks who applied this year to the GSAS was even smaller than last year, although he could not cite specific figures...