Word: hfaiã
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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Last April, amid the green-and-orange color scheme of Loker Commons, the admissions office held a reception for students admitted to Harvard under the HFAI program. Byerly representatives were on hand to distribute white T-shirts with “HFAI?? written across the back in large red letters. A table of crackers and cookies welcomed the couple dozen students milling about, comparing notes on their prefrosh experiences. None had yet accepted Harvard’s offer of admission, but almost all spoke enthusiastically about the opportunity afforded them through the College’s expanded...
...gotten the application and threw it away,” said Jenny Pyles of Norman, Okla., a yellow flower perched in her brown hair. She was later contacted by HFAI??s 2004-2005 undergraduate director, Peter M. Brown ’05, himself an Oklahoma native. “He told me how affordable it is and about the travel opportunities,” Pyles said...
...HFAI??S first full admissions season was a successful one. Qualifying students comprise nearly 18 percent of the College Class of 2009, up three percentage points from the previous year. Almost 80 percent of students accepted under HFAI are studying at Harvard this fall...
...foot former storage closet, networking with high school kids and sending literature out to guidance counselors. From this hole in the wall, the HFAI recruitment team has contacted over 12,000 kids culled from College Board “search lists” of students with high PSAT scores. HFAI??s outreach is now a significant reason why, according to Fitzsimmons, “Harvard is the most aggressive recruiter in the country...
...results of HFAI??s work can be seen not only in students such as Rincon, Harrison, and Benowitz, but in those similarly lower-income students who will follow them to elite universities in the coming years. For example, after receiving recruitment letters from HFAI and the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP), Rincon applied, accepted, and matriculated. But it didn’t stop there. Mike A. Nguyen ’09, another low-income soon-to-be graduate of Century High School, followed her lead and applied to Harvard the next year. Rincon and Nguyen were the first...