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Unlike most Harvard applicants, who are deciding between Harvard and similarly highly-ranked schools based on academics, social life and extracurriculars, many recruited athletes receive full scholarship offers from colleges that demand an early commitment to attend. “Many kids we recruit are not making decisions on Harvard versus another Ivy,” says baseball head coach Joe Walsh. “It’s Harvard versus a scholarship school, and having to pay tuition or not. When a kid is 17 or 18, we’re trying to get him to look...
...League rules prevent Harvard from accepting more than two football recruits in the top 15% of their class who don’t break 1,250. The competition for those two slots at the academic bottom of the Harvard football team, known as the first “band,” is fierce. “You’re not going to take a marginal player in the first band,” Westerfield says. “You only get two. It wouldn’t make sense.” But if the recruit can score...
McHenry, founding editor of Black Issues Book Review and former editor of Ms. magazine, led a sit-in of 29 women while an undergraduate because she felt Radcliffe wasn’t making enough of an effort to recruit black women to be students...
...said the sit-in pushed Bunting to commit $5,000 to outreach efforts and to recruit a black administrator...
There is an active search to recruit a new doctor to replace Lorell as director of the heart failure program at Beth Israel Deaconess, she said...