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Dreifus said the phone calls would be "a chance for us to congratulate them [the early admittants]" and answer any questions they may have about Harvard. She said that accepted students would be encouraged to attend the pre-frosh weekend in April...
...against the first randomization plan included: that houses with the worst image problems would not participate; that the plan had been implemented without sufficient student consultation; that it would be ineffective in any event because too few students would be assigned randomly; that housing choice had been promised to pre-frosh and lastly, that any plan to assign only some students randomly will always be implicitly unfair...
...There's no Harvard type," he says. But as he glances around pre-frosh party in a Yard dorm with a drink in his hand he says, "Actually, there aren't too many jocks in this group. The prefrosh seem to be a pretty academic-minded group...
...when Subramanian offhandedly speaks of her Harvard acceptance as "a pleasant surprise," that's when admissions officers squirm and struggle. A daughter of Indian immigrants who was raised in Niskayuna, New York, (pop. about 5000), Subramanian is the big fish for whom the lure of recruitment programs like pre-frosh weekend are intended. And it is her attitude that captures a sentiment more common among pre-frosh in April than in February...
...Before, Harvard was impersonal, just a name," she says at the end of her pre-frosh stay. "Now it isn't. I guess the admissions people have succeeded in convincing me of this--if that's their goal...