Word: reardon
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...Harvard and Radcliffe admission officials do not believe that an interview should be a highstress situation and John P. Reardon '60, director of Harvard admissions, has ended the grilling of students at U.S. Steel. Both Schwalbe and Reardon said last week that they favor interviews with a friendly atmosphere that will give applicants a favorable impression of the school. The interview, they noted, may be the applicant's only personal contact with the College, and he should be allowed to come across as something more than a few pieces of paper and test scores...
...effort we made this year was greater than ever before and we came up short [in the number of black applicants]." Reardon said. "Although we did well this year [in black admissions], it is important for us to reassess the means we're going about recruiting...
...Reardon attributed the increase in the percentage of black applicants admitted to the improved quality of the black applicant pool and to the desire among alumni recruiters and Harvard admissions officials to attract only the most qualified black candidates...
...Reardon said he did not know if the acceptance rate among blacks would be lower than that among whites, adding that his staff will make "a tremendous at tempt" to recruit the accepted minority students to come here. Referring to scholarship money offered to blacks as an incentive to come here. Reardon said that "If a black kid's parents are making $50,000 a year, we're not going to offer him money to come here as some schools would...
About 40 per cent of those who accept admission will receive financial aid, and nobody who qualifies will be denied any part of the approximately $1.3 million to be allotted to incoming freshmen. Reardon said. Schwalbe said financial aid statistics would not be available until next week...