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That family income or interest in another type of school keeps certain highly intelligent boys from swelling the number of applicants, is a fact likely to produce mixed emotions in the heart of an admissions director. It makes his job easier, that is certain, and keeps the IBM wolf from the door. At the same time, it raises doubts about equality of opportunity in the nation and of the Ivy League college's role as a melting pot of income and geographical groups...
...public school, there are two controlling factors acting independently of the guidance officer, who cannot discourage applications with the same severity that an independent school can. At Boston Latin School, for instance, Harvard's rising costs--coupled with the growing attractiveness of technical schools in the area--have acted to cut down the number of applications and acceptances. Formerly, Boston Latin sent over one hundred boys to Harvard. Acceptances dropped to sixty two years ago and to forty-five this year...
...evident that what one thinks of as the Harvard "student body" is a pretty well-off group. "Even our commuting group is not representative of the nation at large in terms of income," states King. And if fewer boys at Boston Latin consider Harvard financially worthwhile, despite the school's traditional allegiance with Harvard, and despite the possibility of commuting, then needy students in Bear Creek, Montana, are probably even less willing to apply without encouragement...
...Harvard has spread itself out to include more schools and schools further from Cambridge, the question remains what kind of schools and what kind of people is Harvard attracting. Professor Samuel A. Stouffer, an Admissions Committee member, notes that despite the effort expended toward attracting bright people in large high schools, the small town high school has been neglected. "We don't do very well in Hush-puppy, Georgia," Stouffer comments. The large Eastern preparatory schools continue to supply sizeable delegations, but with more schools represented and fewer from any one. Even Exeter's formidable shipments have eased off some...
...size of the individual school's delegation is getting smaller, at the same time the list of schools sending five or more students (including the bigger prep schools and the better public schools) has undergone a slight shift in favor of the private schools. Thirteen public schools contributed five or more boys to the Class of '58, only nine sent this many to '61. But in the same period, the number of prep schools sending five-man delegations rose from 19 to 25 (with 27 for the class of '60). Although public schools contributed more to '62 than to previous...