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...senior admissions officer involved with minority students, says the report was released at a bad time--just as a new administration entered Washington with what appeared to be a very conservative mandate. Blacks were already worried that Reagan might wipe out many of the existing social programs, and the Klitgaard report "gave some sanctity to this concern," Evans, who himself is Black, says...
Following nationwide publicity of the report, prospective students, parents, counselors and alumni began to question admissions officials. They asked if Harvard would be hospitable to minority students; they wondered how minority students actually do here; they wanted to know who Klitgaard was. For some, concerns about the Klitgaard report were linked with fear engendered by threats last fall on the life of the president of the Black Students Association, Lydia P. Jackson '82, as well as the negative reputation of Boston. People sometimes called the Klitgaard report "just another case of Harvard's racism," Evans says...
Admissions officers in turn attempted to allay concerns, sometimes broaching the Klitgaard subject themselves when travelling in places where newspaper headlines about it had recently appeared. Officials tried to demonstrate the importance of diversity to Harvard and, in general the successfulness of Blacks here. They also stressed that Klitgaard's preliminary report reflects only his own opinion. The officers insisted that the report has had no effect on their affirmative action policies and explained that they approached their decisions about whom to admit in exactly the same manner as before last fall...
...drop in the committee's acceptance rate of Blacks--from 27 to 24 per cent (while the acceptance rate for non-Blacks remained at 15 per cent)--had nothing to do with the Klitgaard report, admissions officials say. While they do look at economic background and at "what applicant can contribute in many ways," admissions people are not looking specifically at color when they make their decisions, Fitzsimmons says. "There is no target, no quota. Our committee goes through and picks the best candidates." Fitzsimmons says. "There is no target, no quota. Our committee goes through and picks the best...
Admissions officials also say they have not seen evidence that the drop in the Black yield--from 73 to 69 per cent (while the non-Blacks yield remained at 75 per cent)--is related to the release of the Klitgaard report. The study was not mentioned by any of the Blacks who turned Harvard down, officials says, although extensive surveying of people who opted for other schools did not occur this year (such analysis takes place every three to five years and last happened in 1979). Fitzsimmons calls the yield decline insignificant, while Evans says that, if anything caused...