Word: jewett
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Admissions personnel have developed an elaborate communications network to inform desirable students about Harvard, to convince them to apply, and then to pick the fortunate few. Most students' first contact with the Harvard admissions office occurs sometime during the summer preceding their senior year in high school, says! Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, one of several alumni who has come back to his alma mater to attract the creme de la creme of the high school to Harvard...
...course, admissions officials consider many other factors beside the alumni interview, Jewett stresses, adding the alumni interviews can highlight a certain part of a student's unusual extracurricular interests because school records and recommendations tell more about the student's academic performance...
...scores and high school grades into his formula and place the results on a graph of Harvard students' grades. The position predicts what a potential acceptee's class rank will be when he or she comes to Harvard Whitla says the test is usually 80-90 percent accurate Yet Jewett emphasizes that the formula merely provides just one of many ways of classifying all the students...
...many they can take Finally, on the frantic Saturday before acceptance letters go out, the number has to be pared down to a skeletal 2000 or so This year, 90 students had to be removed from the accepted list on that last day, Fitzsimmons says During these meetings, Jewett says committee members consider distribution throughout the country, numbers of minorities, alumni children and other factors to break dead-locks...
Even after the die is cast, Jewett is always left with a few applications where the draw could go either way. Once these last delicate decisions are made, the letters are sent out, much to the relief of the harried admissions staff. The process is not completed for those on the waiting list still waiting for a decision sometime during the summer By early July only 15 students remain on a special list, which at least guarantees them a slot the following year if a space does not open during August, so as to keep them from enrolling in another...