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...past few years, America has witnessed an enormous growth in the number of women holding top positions at the country’s most prestigious universities. Former HLS Professor Kathleen M. Sullivan is currently dean of Stanford Law School. HLS Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter left last year to become dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. In fact, Princeton, which began admitting women as undergraduates little more than three decades ago, now has women in more than half of its top academic jobs, including university president. Women are also presidents at other...
...HLS, in particular, has a less than laudable historical relationship with women. By 1930 most major law schools in America had begun to admit women, but Harvard waited until 1950 before it opened its doors to the first 14 female law students. According to HLS’s 2001 data, of the 161 full professors at the law school, only 39 are women. In a July interview with The New York Times, Claire Van Ummersen, director of the office of women in higher education at the American Council on Education, said that the increasing numbers of women in college leadership...
Officials at Harvard Law School (HLS) say they are reluctant to reveal estimates of the percentages of Harvard applicants who are admitted each year...
...It’s pretty hard to be much harder than we are, and I don’t expect dramatic changes,” says HLS Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid Joyce P. Curll ’65. “We’re already at a fairly astronomical level...
According to the law school admission grids, the number of Harvard applicants admitted by HLS has varied between 30 and almost 50 percent per year in the past decade...