Word: recruiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recruit for early decision [applicants]. The people who apply are self-selected," said Royer, but added that "we do an excellent job of attracting minorities...
Meanwhile, houses will sponsor tours and parties designed to recruit the "right types" of people. Then, after Harvard's peculiar version of fraternity rush closes, freshmen will play the numbers, attempting to select the ideal house to which their lottery numbers will permit entry. Not until the day before spring break will screams of anguish and joy emanate from the Yard, as freshmen finally learn where they will spend their next three years...
Officials at Princeton have taken credit for the recent increase. "We attempted to recruit women energetically this fall, and from the increased female applicant numbers one could conclude that the increase is due to our recruitment efforts," Princeton's Dean of Admission Anthony Cummings told the campus daily. GEORGETOWN...
Furthermore, we might inquire as to why the hundreds of resentful "strictly academic students" who apparently graduate from Harvard every year have not put forth a similar effort into recruiting their own kind. Introverts don't recruit anybody because introverts don't care about other introverts whereas extroverts seek out other extroverts and generally tolerate introverts. Harvard puts up with a few hundred "pure academic students" every year to ensure that those who lock themselves up in their little libraries or laboratories and eventually do make a contribution to mankind through a lifetime of uninterrupted self-application can make...
...Going one-on-one with Harvard for a recruit, we probably wouldn't get him unless he really liked the rural area or didn't want to move far from home," St. Lawrence Coach Joe Marsh says. "Harvard gets the cream of the crop. We tend to get some good kids in the Ottawa Valley and Toronto areas...