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...results do not reflect a successful minority recruitment program. Of the 124 black students in the Class of 1981, for example, Jewett says that most come from middle-class backgrounds. More importantly, as Jewett points out, "the applicant pool, even with respect to minority applicants, tends in background to come from middle-class communities...
...thing we really hoped student recruiting would do," Jewett says, "and the thing I still think is most important, is that in communities that are to some degree economically or culturally isolated, students coming from comparable backgrounds may have an initial impact...
However, student recruiters and the admissions staff generally agree that a more serious limitation on minority recruitment trips is funding. Jewett estimates this year's total budget for minority recruitment at somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000. And this budget includes not only student travelling and operating costs, but any minority recruitment trips staff members occasionally take. This budget figure--less than 1 per cent of the Admissions Office's total budget--takes on more meaning when viewed in relation to the kind of money Harvard spends on other areas of recruitment. The Athletic Department, for example, will spend...
...Jewett's policy toward minority recruiting clearly differs with that of Reardon on football recruitment. The $10,000 to $15,000 Jewett allocates to minority recruitment must go for considerably more than travel to four states. Nevertheless, Jewett terms the minority recruitment effort a "realistic" one, adding, "Within the budget we've got to deal with, I think we're spending all we could on minority recruitment without cutting into other things I think are equally important...
...Harvard admissions in fact reached that point, or is there perhaps a tendency to slack off too easily? Jewett says, for example, he would like to get a Spanish-speaking person on the staff, one who "understands and can be a source of advice, intuition and experience about that community. Therefore, I want a person who will be a good admissions person, who comes from that background." He says there have not been a lot of good candidates...