Word: poole
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...break-down of early action admissions for the Class of 1993 reveals a curious statistic: in a year when the number of applicants declined slightly overall, Harvard admitted 22 percent more Asian-Americans than it did in last year's record-breakingly large early pool of Asian-Americans...
...early pool seems to be very academic," she says. "But they're not intimidating. Besides, there are more [of the class of 1993] to come--you know, jocks and stuff...
Also, according to admissions data, Asian-Americans typically gain higher representation in the early admission pool than in the regular pool. Last year, for example, Asian-Americans made up 17 percent of students admitted early, while they accounted for about 13 percent of the Class of 1992 as a whole...
...stated priority, goal and ideal of diversity--while upheld to a great extent in each year's full freshman class--falls short of reality in one persistent case--the case of the early action admissions pool...
...must ask where the replacements will be coming from. Here at Harvard and other research universities, a very large part of the faculty comes from smaller research colleges [which are suffering themselves from a smaller pool of faculty]," says Riesman...