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...Alvin F. Poussaint, a professor at the Medical School, said that Eisenberg was most proud of his accomplishment of expanding the Medical School to include underrepresented groups...
Under the new system, minority applications will simply be flagged to ensure that at least one minority admissions officer evaluates the application and interviews the applicant, Poussaint said in an interview last Friday...
...Poussaint cited the language of the Gratz v. Bollinger decision, which called for “holistic” affirmative action policies, saying that administrators “thought it would look more holistic if minority groups were spread over all the subcommittees...
...They didn’t want to give any appearance of doing something different that was in some way limited to minorities,” Poussaint said...
...school remains at the top of many students’ wish lists: Mayer said that the school’s haul of 4,683 applications meant that one of every seven medical school applicants in the country applied to Harvard. Minority applications were down slightly, but both Mayer and Poussaint said that the drop was well within standard deviations...