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Harvard Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said the College’s admissions office takes such concerns into account when selecting a class...
...Recruitment is not the same as admission. Every applicant competes against every other applicant for available spaces with no targets or quotas or goals,” McGrath Lewis said...
Rather than targeting race or ethnicity alone, Harvard College admission policies look more closely at what McGrath Lewis calls an applicant’s “surround,” which includes things like one’s family, ethnicity and hometown...
...McGrath Lewis did allow that if a minority student applicant is considered completely equal in the application process to another non-minority applicant, the minority student will win the tie at least 50 percent of the time, if not more often...
...that point, we don’t stand back from admitting someone who would bring us something very valuable. But we don’t automatically tip for anyone. No one gets in simply because of the box they checked,” McGrath Lewis said...