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...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday Simmons is "very strong in a general sense, with real expertise in the financial aid area. There's no way we could replace her this year." Jewett said members of the admissions staff will share Simmons' former duties until next spring...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, said yesterday his office had rejected the "simplified" form because it did not supply "as much material as we wanted--it was unfair to some students, giving them less of a chance...
...obvious that McGovern could not win the presidency, students turned away from politics and began to worry about careers. "They left for the summer talking about social change and came back in the fall talking about medical school," Wald says. Although one theory speculates that Harvard stopped admitting radicals, Jewett denies that admissions criteria changed at all; the change, he says, came in the applicant pool, as high school students began reflecting their parents' fears about the unemployment facing college graduates...
...shift from the '72-'74 period, while more relaxed than the old pre-professionalism, is marked by a continued turn away from social activity. Jewett says that applications now show a much stronger interest in the arts than in politics, a much more introverted group of students. Students seem to be more interested "in things that relate to their own happiness," Jewett says, "where in the '60s we had more people interested in changing society...
...number of faculty members and administrators, including Jewett, suggest that while it is an improvement over the kind of careerism of the '72-'74 period, greater introspection does not automatically lead to an interest in social change. Jewett says the tenor of the applications he has been receiving worries him somewhat, because he fears that unless college students (he believes Harvard applicants generally reflect the attitudes of the rest of the nation) become more motivated to social action, the nation will be stagnant in a few years, when these students become a politically apathetic group of adults...