Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eighty-five percent of Harvard applicants are academically qualified. Being in the top 16 percent of this group, you'll have little or no problem doing the work here if you apply yourself...
...seminars. Seminars boast small classes, big-name professors and no grades. Plus, four out of five students surveyed said their first-year romances began in a seminar. (Survey based on the 3 percent of students who had first-year romances...
...Only 7 percent of senior faculty members are minorities, and 8 percent are women. Currently, 12 percent of junior faculty are minorities, and 28 percent are women...
...fact for students is this: a community does not learn to resolve the past's legacy of anger and injustice by ignoring the problem in the present. We cannot understand our neighbor if we never see him. That only 1.8 percent of Harvard's just under 400 senior faculty are Black is troubling, nearly outrageous...
...issue again, in a subtler shade. Investigators from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights arrive for a compliance review of Harvard admissions with a specific directive to investigate possible discrimination against Asian-Americans. Harvard has justified the rate of Asian-American admissions--consistently 80 to 90 percent that of white students--with the group's relative lack of legacy students and small number of varsity athletes, both recruitment factors at the University...