Word: reardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reardon said Harvard tries to "come to grips" with a minority student's background. If a candidate has what he called "a lot of drive and energy" the committee would look at him even though his board scores may be in the 500s, and probably would debate the case "the head off a pin." But if a minority student has gone to a prep school all his life, he'll get no special consideration...
...number of minority students they admit. "We don't set any specific target or quota, though we look back at what we've done so that if we thought we hadn't done enough, we'd probably go back and look again and be sure we were right." Reardon said...
...Reardon said he often thinks that Harvard is doing a lot more for people if it takes them from an underpriviledged background and really improves their life than if it takes someone who's already pretty well along academically. Leaving the topic of minority admissions to take a general view of the process, Reardon said "What we are guessing in admissions it seems anyway is what people are going to be like in 25 years...I don't think we're Gods, we're just trying to put together a class of people for which Harvard will make a difference...
...figures show that while 19 per cent of all applicants are admitted, 34 per cent of alumni children get in. But the advantages have decreased over the last two decades, when-90 per cent of all Harvard sons were admitted. Most alumni children are strong candidates but, Reardon said, for 35-40 applicants this year, "the fact of being a Harvard son helped...
...Both Reardon and Schwalbe expressed concern over the faculty policy giving their children so much preference in the admissions process. There are some faculty children, they said, who would have better off somewhere else...