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Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 agreed with Slater’s conclusion that intense competition for high-achieving black students depresses Harvard’s yield.
“The African-American yield has been lower than the overall yield [at Harvard] but higher than the overall yield for most other Ivies,” Lewis said.
McGrath Lewis said that she and other admissions officers worried that West’s exit and the surrounding circumstances would diminish the yield of black students.
In fact, McGrath Lewis said, “We had a better yield [of black students] after that had happened. Maybe we were so concerned about it that we redoubled our efforts.”
According to McGrath Lewis, “legacies yield at a slightly higher rate.” She noted, however, that Harvard is seeing an increasing number of black legacy applicants.