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According to Mayer, HMS started to review its affirmative action policy in late...
...It’s well-intentioned, but we’ve been told repeatedly by the University counsel and consultants for the University counsel that it is not a wise policy to maintain,” said Dr. Robert J. Mayer, faculty associate dean for admissions at HMS, yesterday...
Since the landmark 1978 Bakke Supreme Court decision that barred universities from using quota systems, HMS has used a two-tiered system in which applications from under-represented minorities—defined as African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans—are evaluated by a dedicated subcommittee before being pooled with the rest of the applicants for a final decision, according to Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, HMS associate dean for student affairs...
...interview with The Crimson yesterday, Mayer also released statistics on the incoming Class of 2010, the last HMS class to be admitted under the old affirmative action policy...
According to Mayer, the acceptance rate at HMS remained steady this year at 4.2 percent. The 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...