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...students. Limited resources, rather than any residue of snobbery, keep them from reaching further. Inflation has forced all of them into massive money-raising efforts and budget tightening. The admissions picture is more bullish, thanks partly to the declining quality of public schools. Applications are up at top prep schools, and the percentage of children in private schools around the country has been increasing...
...Harvard Square recently and I got run over by a car... The car was moving so fast that despite the neighborhood that I come from, I couldn't steal the hubcaps off it. Fortunately, my mother-in-law was driving it. My parents tried to send my to a prep school...
...interview last week, Jewett explained that the function of Harvard's trips to prep schools is not primarily to recruit, but to provide each applicant the staff interview to which he is entitled. "If you're going to talk about would resources of time and effort, to have a hundred Exeter students making a trip down" is a much greater waste, he said. Harvard does not grant interviews to prep school students when they visit Harvard...
After listening to Moriarty's observation that most prep school seniors do in fact visit Harvard, Jewett provided a different explanation for Harvard's travelling policy: "We can't just automatically fit them all in. They come on the weekends lots of times. We're not going to sit around and interview them on Sundays...
...John P. Reardon '60, director of Athletics, the scope of this program will be limited to four states where alumni efforts have thus far proved insufficient. This program only supplements the various other ways in which Harvard recruits athletes, such as the Admissions Office's January return trips to prep schools...