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Many Harvard students who recently graduated from these prep schools say it's no coincidence that these numbers, though smaller than they were in the past, are still substantial. They say they were acutely aware of their school's long history of intimacy with Harvard when applying to colleges...
Couglin, like many graduates from feeder schools who are at Harvard, says that students in her class perceived being interviewed on their high school campus by Harvard admissions officers--instead of regular Harvard alumni--as a distinct advantage. Sending a team of admissions officers to New England prep schools for a day or two of interviews is Harvard's normal procedure; Couglin was interviewed by Assistant Dean of the College John R. Marquand...
Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70-'73 says that although New England prep school students are not advantaged by on-campus interviews, that tradition is ending nonetheless. Beginning next fall, she says, prep school students will receive standard alumni interviews just like every other applicant...
Besides the personal interviews, many attribute the longstanding success of prep school students in the admissions process to close personal relationships between college counselors at the schools and Harvard's admissions office...
Harvard admissions officers have themselves often been alumni of the elite prep schools and, in turn, many counselors at the schools are Harvard alums. In addition, admissions officers who have covered these schools for a number of years have come to know these counselors quite well, those involved in the admissions process...