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...Seamus Malin '62 was born in Dublin. He came to the States when his father took a job here. Malin is now director of financial aid at Harvard and the admissions officer responsible for overseeing the selection of undergraduate foreign students...
...Most foreign students at Harvard have an American connection,' either first-hand or tenuous," says Malin, from his office on the third floor of Byerly Hall. That connection may be established through family, friends or previous visits to the United States--as the careers of these freshmen indicate--or in other, unknown ways. "We ask on the application how students learned about Harvard, but that's a loaded question. They give us the answer they think we'd like to hear, that it's known all over the world, has famous professors, etc.," Malin notes...
...result, the admissions committee sees no need for an active recruiting program. Harvard clubs and individual alumni abroad do conduct some interviews--usually on a "catch as catch can" basis, Malin says--but students by and large apply on their initiative, without any encouragement from the University...
...Everybody played well," said Malin, without citing any individual standouts in the game...
...Malin was also pleased that "everybody who was there got to play a lot." Last year, the athletic department dropped the eight-year-old JV soccer program for economic reasons, but this year the program is "on track as far as I'm concerned," according to Malin...