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...yield on African Americans plunged between 1981 and 1982, and the percentage of matriculating students whose fathers had not attended college dropped for the third year...
...April 1982—before Harvard learned which of the students accepted to the Class of 1986 would actually matriculate—Fitzsimmons told The Crimson that the 1982 yield could drop because of national economic pressures or rise because some competing colleges had not reaffirmed aid-blind admissions, as Harvard...
When the numbers came in, the yield was down; Harvard accepted approximately 60 wait-listed applicants to bring the Class of 1986 to its desired size...
...yield on accepted African American students also dropped significantly from 69 percent in 1981 to 57 percent...
...Enzymatic Mechanisms and Antibiotic Biosynthesis.” While that class seemed cool (sounded like you’d be spending the semester experimenting with DNA of super-humans or radioactive mutants or something) it did not seem like the type of class that would yield an “easy A.” The CUE Guide was also a little disconcerting to me. If the rumors I’d been hearing about Harvard’s grade inflation were true, then why was there a “difficulty” rating listed for each class...