Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Call this male chauvinist if you like. There are many people here who would be unhappy to see the number of men reduced." Peterson had gloomier predictions, if Harvard reduced male admissions, he prophesied "such heightened frustrations and negative feedback as might literally destroy the richness of our applicant pool, our national schools committee apparatus and the interest of the secondary schools they contact...
...female applicant pool also became more economically diverse. Nearly 25 per cent of women in the Class of '79 qualified for financial aid, compared to 42.3 per cent in this year's freshman class. By contrast, 41.7 per cent of the current freshman class qualified for aid, making the class of '83 the first in which the percentage of women qualifying for assistance surpasses that...
Fitzsimmons attributes the increase in number and diversity of the female applicant pool to the combined staff, Harvard alumni recruitment of qualified women, and the admissions committee's efforts to generate more publicity about equal access...
...Hall, the committee became one in the fall of 1975. "Radcliffe's committee did not dissolve into Harvard's or vice versa." Fitzsimmons says. Indeed, the similarities in the operations of the separate committees led to few changes after the merger. The major difference occurred in the female applicant pool, as a larger and more diverse group of women applied...
Maybe someday. But given the current size of Radcliffe's applicant pool and the possibility, as Schwalbe suggests, that Harvard alumni would complain vehemently if the number of men fell below 1000, that day is a long...