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...minority recruitment program, as regards the staff members, is also loosely defined. "Each staff person is encouraged to include minority recruiting as one of his responsibilities," Jewett says, adding that the amount of recruiting varies with the locale and the given staff member...
...places where Harvard does spend its time and money may reveal something about the priorities of the admissions program. Like Richardson, most staff members are on the road between six and eight weeks a year, both to recruit and to conduct interviews. While Jewett says he cannot be precise about the kind of effort that goes into minority recruitment, he does say he has a clear picture of other segments of the applicant pool...
...interview last week, Jewett explained that the function of Harvard's trips to prep schools is not primarily to recruit, but to provide each applicant the staff interview to which he is entitled. "If you're going to talk about would resources of time and effort, to have a hundred Exeter students making a trip down" is a much greater waste, he said. Harvard does not grant interviews to prep school students when they visit Harvard...
After listening to Moriarty's observation that most prep school seniors do in fact visit Harvard, Jewett provided a different explanation for Harvard's travelling policy: "We can't just automatically fit them all in. They come on the weekends lots of times. We're not going to sit around and interview them on Sundays...
...Jewett likes to speak well of this program. When asked where the main thrust of Harvard's minority recruitment effort lies, he responds that, "While the main impetus for recruitment has got to come from staff, students--certainly in the areas they focus on--would probably be at least equal in terms of what they produce...