Word: melvoin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial AidRichard I. Melvoin '73 travelled with Nelson inMichigan on her three recruiting trips: "I thinkwhat students and parents most appreciated aboutMecca was that instead of some some agingadmissions officer trying to tell them whatHarvard was like, she was not only a reallivestudent, but one who was remarkably active, onewho does not see Harvard with rose-coloredglasses, yet one who represents the place well inall its complexity...
...positive side she would present to studentis that this is a college that providesextraordinary opportunities for students to pushin the direction they choose," Melvoin says. "Theflip side is that she also saw it as a place thatneeds to improve...She's not shy about talkingabout those kinds of issues. What ultimately wascompelling is that she was not just talking, shewas doing it, and she was doing it in a way thatdid not alienate the people she was confronting...
...College's new application is intended to be more efficient for the admissions office, as well as simpler for students, according to Assistant Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Richard I. Melvoin...
...system gives prospective students "a little more of a sense of 'one world, one application,'" Melvoin said...