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...Crimson is withholding the proctor’s name to avoid identifying the freshmen described in the e-mail...
...advance of an annual meeting between the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) and undergraduate admissions officers to discuss the freshman class, Assistant Dean of Freshmen Lesley Nye Barth e-mailed proctors asking for feedback on their students...
...Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 explains that if an undergraduate came to Harvard with a stellar math record but failed an introductory college math course, it would raise the question of “should we look with even greater care at the transcript from this school and what it means.” But he adds that the feedback is “not a blunt instrument” and that one case alone might not change admissions’ views, and that “only in a small set of instances?...
Though this is a longstanding practice, it is also a secretive one. Over 50 proctors contacted by The Crimson declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment. Several proctors said that they had been instructed to refer all questions to Dingman and the assistant deans of freshmen. Assistant Dean of Freshmen James N. Mancall did not respond to an e-mail requesting comment, and Assistant Dean of Freshmen Sue Brown did not respond to e-mailed questions...
...certainly share Dean Dingman’s concerns about protecting student privacy,” Nye Barth, the third assistant dean of freshmen, writes in an e-mail. “I really have nothing else to add to [Dingman’s and Fitzsimmons’] characterization of the communication...