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Most of the pre-freshmen, coming from all parts of the country, visit Cambridge to compare what they think the school will be like with what it actually is. Some high school students had only seen Harvard through glossy pamphlets or textbook descriptions...
...myself included. Of course, as is true with any great institution or tradition, the Action Man can be experienced in a number of ways To some, he is the Pizza Man, calling up and asking who ordered Pizza, then placing an order of his own. When he calls pre-freshmen, he is the Early Action Man, when he calls minorities, he is the Affirmative Action Man Sometimes he is subtle, hemming and hawing at his motives until the listener gets the point and hangs up; other times as way my case, he is quite straight forward, making his pitch with...
However, minority student leaders have rightly countered that their events, which are open to all students, merely provide a needed support net-work and sense of community for minority freshmen. It is these same legitimate concerns that the College itself caters to in April, when it hosts a minority pre-freshmen weekend to attract minorities to Harvard...
Like many other freshmen, when I was deciding what University to attend. Harvard sent me brochures assuring me of its highly-prized diversity. There was even a Third World pre-freshmen weekend where many of the Harvard administrators came out in force assuring all of the pre-freshmen that when and if we came, there would be official Harvard support networks here...
...Today pre-freshmen will attend classes and special office hours which most departments are holding for them...