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With high schools around the country potentially warranting a recruitment trip, the Admissions Office depends strongly upon the Search Lists to locate potential applicants. As L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid says, "The Search List provides the initial contact. If we didn't use the Search List, we'd have nothing...
Harvard introduced the Search List into its recruitment program two or three years ago, Jewett said...
...Search List is a preliminary step, Harvard's actual recruitment program has three components--alumni, staff and students--which Jewett describes as being "pretty balanced in importance." Of the three, only the student group works specifically on minority recruitment (although two part-time admissions staff members primarily work with the minority candidate). The alumni and staff efforts in minority recruitment are integrated into the general admissions program...
With respect to the alumni, this means notifying local Harvard Clubs and their members of the Search List names from their areas, and hoping these alums follow up on the list in addition to their other recruiting and interviewing responsibilities. But as Jewett says, "In some areas there's been very active alumni participation, and in other areas, there hasn't been...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, said yesterday that although the tuition credits are not very substantial, they will aid an income group of great concern to Harvard admissions, the middle class. However, the tax credits will not prompt an increase in the amount of applications from middle-class students, Jewett said...