Word: mcgrath
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Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73 says that while numbers are too close right now to tell for certain if women will outnumber men—it will come down to final enrollment decisions next September—she is pleased with the response from women admits this year...
...pleased to see that the appeal of Harvard College remains very strong (for men and women both) and heartened by the evidence that women are this year at least as likely to accept our offer as men are,” McGrath Lewis writes in an e-mail...
...myriad academic hoops students currently have to jump through and, in the process, putting the focus back on high-quality work rather than high-quantity. Right now, in other words, Harvard has a rare opportunity to prove Brooks wrong. It had better seize it. After all, as McGrath Lewis said to me, “Talented and interesting young people are in abundance in this country.” For better or worse (and it is debatable), many Harvard students have spent most of their brief lives convinced of their inherent academic superiority. But unless they graduate with the broad...
...down to arrogance or snobbery, perhaps, but that is not a sentence that cheers me up, especially. Rather worried, I called Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73. “Aren’t we doing something wrong?” I asked. “I mean, isn’t the admissions office falling down on the job somewhat if people can’t tell the difference between us and Nittany Lions?” McGrath Lewis sought to reassure me. “The essence...
...expectation is that the news of the new program in and of itself will be very, very helpful in making tangible to prospective students our commitment to access,” McGrath Lewis wrote in an e-mail yesterday afternoon...