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Austin and other city dwellers agree that the biggest bonus to inner-city living is the incredible diversity of people who live next door, sell you your newspaper or, as Khentov delights, are always ready to join your game of whiffle ball...
Come fall, however, Harvard's claims of geographic diversity will soon evaporate. Those students who call safe city townhouses, a string of similar picket-fenced suburban tracts or the occasional rural town home begin to identify with each other, and the few from inner-city areas struggle to find space for their experiences in the halls...
Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73 declined to speculate on the number of inner-city students at the College since it is "not a way in which [the Admissions Office has] counted or categorized students." However, Lewis says that Harvard does actively seek inner-city students who have overcome geographic and economic obstacles to academic achievement...
...told, Harvard students from inner-city areas are fewer than may appear from casual conversations about hometown high schools and pre-frosh hang-outs. Yet, undergrads from urban environments have an undeniably different story to tell than those from the burbs...
Through Prep-For-Prep--a program which helps inner-city minorities prepare for preparatory high schools and college--Evans left Sound View to attend Phillips Andover Academy. Through will-power and a knack for resisting neighborhood temptations, Evans was able to embrace what he calls "positive living...