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Admissions officers increasingly rely on Skype and the admissions Web site to connect with students in countries they are unable to visit. The office is planning to hold conferences with schools in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia via Skype in the near future, Worth said...
Director of International Admissions Robin M. Worth ’81 spent one of her nights in Tanzania sleeping on the floor, dining on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, during Harvard’s three-week recruiting trip to Africa at the beginning of the year...
...wasn’t glamorous,” Worth said of her travel arrangements...
...Worth spent a total of $500 visiting high schools in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and South Africa—a recruiting trip she said has cost Harvard and its peer institutions roughly $10,000 in past years...
When the admissions office slashed its travel budget in half to meet mandatory cuts last spring, Worth said that she feared international travel would not be possible this year...