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Admissions officials at Harvard College say they seek out more information when class rankings are not provided, Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 wrote in an e-mail...
...McGrath Lewis said that while she understood these concerns, recent news articles dealing with the college admissions process placed too much of an emphasis on the importance of class rankings...
While some colleges have documented the increasing tendency of high schools to shift away from tabulating class rankings, Harvard does not document which schools or how many students provide rankings, according to McGrath Lewis...
...every time another Common App is reviewed.The question then is this: How does the admissions process get warped when the readers are suddenly dealing with an Olympic athlete?“We always look for talent, Olympic-quality and otherwise,” wrote Director of Undergraduate Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis in an email. “And we are interested in other kinds of distinction, such a record of support for good works of all kinds.”Of course, this makes sense. Harvard hasn’t gained its reputation by admitting untalented and heartless souls.Nevertheless, Lewis...
...other Ivy League schools as competition. “We view ourselves as a world-class university and would like to attract the best students in the world—as do the Ivy League universities,” Collier wrote. Harvard College Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said that Harvard is not specifically concerned about losing potential students as a result of Oxford’s recruiting efforts. Harvard always tries to be “visible, attractive, and accessible,” Lewis said. “We take...