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...survey of admitted students who did not enroll in Harvard in 1982, 44 percent of African Americans questioned indicated that finances were among the primary reasons they chose not to come...
Partially as a result of these efforts, the number of students on financial aid has increased from 39 percent to nearly 70 percent over the past 25 years...
...number of minority students admitted to Harvard has nearly doubled from 21 percent in 1982 to close to 40 percent today...
...their diversity, rush to include their minorities in catalogues and brochures. Diversity acts as a badge of progressivism and serves an indication that racism is non-existent. But true equality is more than just smiling faces and colorful catalogues; just as addressing racism is more complex than ensuring 10 percent of a Harvard class is black each year. While overt cases of racism at Harvard and elsewhere are indeed egregious, they are manifestations of institutional racism in America. Take a look at high school graduation statistics, the achievement gap, or conditions in inner-city schools, and it is clear that...
...receives a decision in December, unfairly advantage the already advantaged. The early applicant pool is traditionally admitted at around twice the rate of the regular pool—meaning that Harvard’s already intimidating admissions statistics look even grimmer for regular applicants, with as little as six percent of the regular pool admitted. As a result, applicants with little knowledge of the admissions process and even less guidance with which to navigate it—applicants who also tend to come from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds—face an unnecessarily high burden when applying that has nothing...