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...Sanchez says that Harvard alumnus also contacted him, thinking he was a football player. "My school was only known for its football," Sanchez grins, adding that the "alumnus took a liking to me anyway...
After he got accepted to Harvard other Chicano undergraduates got in touch with him, and helped Sanchez learned about the University which he had never seen and didn't know a thing about." Sanchez says he was reassured hearing people from similar backgrounds say that "socially I could fit in and find my own home...
...months after he came to Cambridge, Sanchez went back to California--this time as an undergraduate minority recruiter. Sanchez recruited every year he was at Harvard and as a sophomore and junior was the co-coordinator for the whole Chicano recruiting project. "For Chicanos here at Harvard," Sanchez asserts, "recruiting has always been an integral part of their existence...
While Harvard can only accept "the cream of the crop" from the neighborhoods visited by student recruiters. Sanchez believes the recruiters should also have an impact on the entire community. In addition to supplying Harvard with applicants, recruiters must be the "role models to get the kids to aim for better jobs or even just to continue with school...
...Sanchez is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford where he is competing his PhD on the American "outsider"--which includes Blacks, women, Chicanos, and laborers. He came back to Harvard this year to help put his younger brother through college after his father lost his job as a mechanic...