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...influence of the Klitgaard report on admissions may continue to linger. The final version of Klitgaard's report is due to be released soon, and the publicity form the earlier report continues: earlier this month, for example, NBC-TV included discussion of it in a "Whie Paper...
Some admissions officials, such as Rosemary Green, assistant director of admissions, believe Klitgaard's preliminary study is essentially a moot topic. "It's not an issue at this point. We dealt with it as far as we're concerned, and it's not begin discussed now," Green says...
...implication of the report. I think prospective candidates do know about it," Rubin Alvero, head of minority recruiting, says. Alvero notes that the number of Black applications rose significantly (from 664 to 751) last year. But he and other officials also point out that nationwide publicity of the Klitgaard report did not really flare up last fall until after most people had applied and until after the admissions officers' travelling season (which ends around Thanksgiving...
...students who are rejected by the admissions committee. Anytime there are almost 14,000 applicants, of whom 12,000 are qualified to attend, there will be students saying, "I was not legitimately rejected," according to Evans. If someone then points out a particular group as "illegitimate," as Evans believes Klitgaard did, it may reinforce the students' claims, he adds, noting that some people did complain this year that the admissions committee has filled the class with "unqualified minorities...
...perhaps even greater concern to admissions officials has been the effect of the Klitgaard report on minority students here. They say that while the report has received some attention off campus, it has become common knowledge in Cambridge. Fitzsimmons says the increasing number of minority students attending Harvard in recent years is largely attributable to redoubling of recruitment efforts by Harvard's minority students, who now may have lost some of their enthusiasm. In addition, the report and complaints by rejected students appear to have put undue psychological pressures on Harvard's minority students, who may feel put upon...