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...Harvard College admissions does not—and never has—used any methods which could properly be called ‘affirmative action,’ Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 said...
...McGrath Lewis did, however, confirm the College’s use of active recruitment of ethnic and minority groups. Minorities who have shown themselves to be very talented academically and in extracurriculars are targeted with direct mailings and alumni recruitment...
...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...