Word: mcgrath
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Graham’s attorney, Martin Kane of the firm McGrath and Kane, said yesterday that despite the defendants’ statements to police, “there are definitely some issues in this case...
When Harvard changed its early application policy last week—retaining early action, but forbidding applicants from applying early elsewhere—three prominent administrators publicly justified the switch. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath-Lewis ’70-’73 and University President Lawrence H. Summers pitched the University’s line: that the policy switch would take stress off Byerly Hall and allow the admissions office to focus only on students who can legally choose to matriculate—all while...
...McGrath-Lewis told The Crimson that the policy change would simplify the process by allowing the admissions office to “focus on those candidates who are free to accept our offer.” Presently, Harvard’s early applicants can simultaneously apply early decision elsewhere, which means the College sends thick letters to some students who are legally bound to attend another school. And yes, the time and resources spent debating applicants who, in the end, cannot legally attend Harvard—88 were accepted last year, according to McGrath-Lewis—is a burden...
While most students in this situation honored their Early Decision agreement and withdrew, McGrath Lewis said, three or four failed to withdraw their Harvard applications. In one case, she said, the University was recently informed by another elite institution that a student whom that college had accepted under Early Decision was also accepted through Regular Action at Harvard after being deferred. When Harvard contacted the student, according to McGrath Lewis, she said she “forgot” that she was expected to withdraw her application to Harvard...
...don’t doubt she will do the right thing,” McGrath Lewis said. “[But if not,] we will say no thanks...