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Over the weekend, the department discovered that, they received more than the 13,350 applications recorded by their computer. According to Dean of Admissions, and Financial Aids L. Fred Jewett '57, some 200 applicants never filed the preliminary application, a single-page sheet of basic information that is fed into the department's computer system...
...prospective students apparently mailed their applications so late, they probably thought that there was no need for the preliminary application, Jewett explained...
...There is no question that they have minority status." Jewett said. He added that Asian-American recruiting efforts have changed very little in the past few years...
...Jewett explained that because Harvard has been "successful in attracting Asian candidates in general, there is not as much of an attempt to increase the number of applicants." He added, however, that his office has stepped up efforts over the last two years to attract Asian-American students from "underprivileged or disadvantaged backgrounds...
...that Asian-Americans in general do not fall into an "underrepresented" category While ten years ago they constituted only 2 percent of the Harvard's student body, they now make up nearly 11 percent. With 80 Early Action acceptances this year, the group "certainly had a very good showing." Jewett said...