Admission by Affluence: How Harvard’s ‘Diversity’ Leaves Out Students From Schools Like Mine
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According to FAS spokesperson John Chisholm, “Harvard admits students not high schools.” But with one in 11 students coming from just 21 schools, it’s hard to believe him.
Clearly, Harvard knows exactly what type of students it seeks to admit — the wealthier, the better. For all of its talk of diversity, Harvard is dramatically failing to admit students from underprivileged economic backgrounds. And as a student from an under-resourced high school, I can say firsthand that despite its recent efforts, Harvard isn’t doing enough to reach out to students like me.
The Crimson’s recent article on feeder schools lays their overrepresentation bare. Access to elite education is so concentrated that more than half of the schools that regularly see students matriculate at Harvard are located in just three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California. And again, there’s that jaw-dropping fact: over 9 percent of Harvard’s student body comes from .078 percent of public and private high schools in the United States.
This inequality isn’t a statistical anomaly — it’s by design.
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