Word: mughogho
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Contrary to Mughogho's assertion, American citizens who applied from abroad (or those with dual citizenship which includes U.S. citizenship) are not (and never have been) "counted" as international students...
...sympathetic to Mughogho's concern that access to information about American education be available to qualified applicants from the widest possible variety of backgrounds. Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges are among the very few institutions whose "need-blind" admissions policy applies as much to foreign students as it does to Americans...
...clearly stated in our published material, the admissions process takes into account a wide array of information which goes well beyond SAT scores and a list of extracurricular activities, the two "standards of the American college admissions process" which Mughogho asserts puts foreign applicants "necessarily at a disadvantage...
While we are pleased that Mughogho has acknowledged a "more equitable application form for international students," we are dismayed that his article suggests that we are then unable to interpret fairly the information that we have collected. Our entire admissions process is geared toward evaluating what an applicant has accomplished in the context of his or her cultural, educational, and social resources rather than holding all applicants to some universal, and therefore inappropriate, standard...
...therefore object strongly to Mughogho's contention that "students could...be eliminated on technicalities" (in his example, the fact that social service is not a commonplace extracurricular opportunity in non-Western societies "that are not directly related to their ability to do well at college...