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McGrath Lewis says that the admissions office can guarantee a class of students who can obtain all A’s in their courses—this, she says, is not a difficult task to accomplish.
However, McGrath Lewis says she keeps in mind the 25-year reunion books sitting on a shelf over her desk, what she calls the first returns of her work.
Unlike its neighbor MIT, Harvard’s admissions office is less willing to bank on the “folder,” admissions shorthand for a prospective student, with only the promise of “untapped potential,” McGrath Lewis says.
“The person who simply reads books, who doesn’t have much to show for it, will have a hard time distinguishing themselves from the [applicant] pool,” explains McGrath Lewis. “We are a little bit more like people from Missouri...
The College is and should be “clear with students that academic obligations come before extracurriculars,” Lewis wrote in a February memo to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby.