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...percent for legacy applicants to the class of 2011 . Given the weight its degrees carry, shouldn’t Harvard base its admissions solely on merit? Why should legacy status serve even as a “feather in the scale,” as Dean of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70 put it? Maybe no one has made the right case for legacies. Sure, their SAT scores may be, on average, slightly higher than the rest of the applicant pool. They may come predominantly from white, wealthy, prep-school backgrounds. Admitting them may encourage their parents...
...College Board researcher Krista D. Mattern told the Chronicle of Education that “admissions committees should be wary of using such information in the admissions-decisions process.” According to Harvard’s Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70, the College attempts to develop “as complete a picture of each [applicant] as possible” and considers in the admissions process multiple factors such as perseverance, drive, humor, and integrity. McGrath wrote in an e-mail that “‘fit’ is very much...
...Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70 said that despite the recent pattern of admits from Deep Springs, the College did not view itself as having any implicit arrangement with the school...
...They compete for admission just like everyone else. We don’t have any targets or quotas on the number of students admitted from a particular school,” McGrath said. “It certainly has been true that we have had a number from Deep Springs, and I would be surprised if they would not apply once we accept transfer applicants again...
...don’t see any likelihood that the number will be changed,” said McGrath, who herself transfered to Radcliffe College from Wellesley in 1967. “It’s not a question of exception...