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...minority recruitment program may have a random quality because of this division of responsibilities among alumni and staff members. Brad Richardson, a Harvard admissions officer since 1969, says that of the roughly six weeks he spends on the road recruiting each year, he does some minority recruitment work "just about every day. For example, every school in Miami where I recruit has a certain number of blacks and Spanish-speaking people, so you're bound to run into some of those kinds of people there...
...places where Harvard does spend its time and money may reveal something about the priorities of the admissions program. Like Richardson, most staff members are on the road between six and eight weeks a year, both to recruit and to conduct interviews. While Jewett says he cannot be precise about the kind of effort that goes into minority recruitment, he does say he has a clear picture of other segments of the applicant pool...
Every fall, for instance, the dean of admissions and about four other staff members travel to Wallingford, Ct., where they spend two days interviewing students at Choate Rosemary Hall. In January, a single staff member returns to Choate Rosemary in order to interview "post graduates" (students who attend prep schools for one year after graduating from other secondary schools) for whom a fall interview would hold limited value. According to Susan Moriarty, a college guidance counselor at Choate Rosemary, the January trip is "essentially for the benefit of the athletic P.G.s [post-graduates...
According to Richardson, the admissions staff makes comparable visits to about 40 other schools. He estimates that of the roughly 700 "man-days" staff members spend on the road, about 200 are spent on these trips...
Although many eastern colleges court the prep school and private school students, the interest Harvard displays toward them appears to be unusual. Moriarty said that of the hundred-plus colleges that send representatives to Choate Rosemary, Harvard alone provides one-on-one interviews with a staff member for all applicants. "Yale, for example, comes here with several alumni interviewers, but only one man from the admissions staff," Moriarty said...