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...Faculty members have some pretty strong feelings about getting their children to come." Reardon said. "Some people are pretty objective in other ways, but not so when it comes to their children...
...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...
...work of admissions officers doesn't end when the decisions are made and the answers mailed out. "The toughest part of the business," according to Reardon, "is dealing with the people who are disappointed. For some rejection is water off the back. For others it's the end of the world...
Some of those who receive rejection letters make the staff at admissions office acutely aware of their disappointment. The mother of one applicant turned down by the committee arrived at the office without an appointment. As Reardon described the incident. "She told my secretary that she was sure I wouldn't see her, but that she was going to sit all summer or until they admitted her son." As a matter of policy, the admissions offices never reconsider a case unless information in the file is proved false. The woman kept her promise for a while, and the admissions office...
...turned down kin of Katherine Hepburn. Harvard also turned a cold shoulder to the lights of show biz when it turned down Gregory Peck's son. Peck, following in a long line of disappointed fathers, called the admissions office to find out why. "My answer to these people," Reardon said, "is this is a fallible committee. We're not like the Pope. It could be wrong, but this is the decision of the committee...