Word: pooling
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HARVARD HAS LONG ADHERED to an admissions policy aimed at producing a diverse student body. Diversity, however, is more than a function of the selection process. Since a student body can only be as diverse as its applicant pool, the Admissions Office actively recruits people from distinctive backgrounds as well as people with special talents in athletics and the arts. As Michelle Green, an admissions officer, says, "If we ever stopped recruiting, we would wind up with an all-white, all-prep, all-brain student body...
...need to recruit these students? While Robert F. Young '74, an admissions officer who coordinates the activities of undergraduate recruiters with the Admissions Office, says the low number of minority students at Harvard is not a reflection on the recruitment program, he adds, "The fact is, the minority applicant pool is not that deep. There just aren't enough talented minority students right...
...road between six and eight weeks a year, both to recruit and to conduct interviews. While Jewett says he cannot be precise about the kind of effort that goes into minority recruitment, he does say he has a clear picture of other segments of the applicant pool...
...results do not reflect a successful minority recruitment program. Of the 124 black students in the Class of 1981, for example, Jewett says that most come from middle-class backgrounds. More importantly, as Jewett points out, "the applicant pool, even with respect to minority applicants, tends in background to come from middle-class communities...
Alan M. Dershowitz, a professor of Law and an expert on affirmative action who authored an amicus curiae brief for University of California Regents vs. Allan Bakke, says he is critical of Harvard for preferring advantaged minority students over the disadvantaged. "I do think there's a pool of disadvantaged students out there," he says, adding that "if these admissions people would only get off their butts, they would find a different result...