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...McGrath Lewis said she believes this year’s drop in black student yield is part of a larger trend of declining black student enrollment at the College over the past 10 years. While 9 percent of first-year students were black in 1993, black students comprise only 6.8 percent of the Class...
...while the percentage of black students accepting admissions offers from Harvard reached a peak of roughly 74 percent in the mid-1990s, McGrath Lewis said black student yields have been declining fairly steadily ever since...
...McGrath Lewis said she attributes this trend to greater competition from Harvard’s peers in the recruitment of minority students...
...makes them more attractive to black students, she said.“I think they’re being heavily recruited by a lot of colleges and figuring out—quite accurately—that there may be several comfortable places where they could enroll,” McGrath Lewis continued...
...McGrath Lewis warned against reading too much into year-to-year fluctuations because the small number of black students at the College makes the group’s admissions yield statistics extremely variable...