GSAS to Recruit Minority Students With Six Schools

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will recruit minority students last year in a coordinated effort with six other graduate schools in an attempt to offset the recent decline in minority applications Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, said yesterday.

Harvard, which has suffered declare of minority applications from 140 last year to 90 this year and has admitted outside minority students to next year classes 500 will recruit minorities in co-ordinations with Yale. Brown Princeton Stanford the University of Pennsylvania and MIT.

In order to overcome this year dropping minority applications a problem all graduate schools encountered this year McKinney said the six schools agreed of a meeting earlier this spring "to identify a good pool of minority seniors who want to go on to graduate schools."

He said the schools agreed to "create a minority pool" among the six institutions to "make sure all the minorities are applying to the best institutions."

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The GSAS, McKinney said, will "get in touch with group I and group II minority seniors" next fall to tell them about the graduate schools and convince them to apply.

He said the GSAS "will not have a minority recruiter as such" next year because "recruiting for the whole graduate school does not seem to work very well," though, he added. Nina P. Hillgarth, head of the GSAS admissions office, will work with the six other universities to interest minority students in Harvard.

The new recruiting program has not been entirely worked out, McKinney said, and the seven schools will meet again in early October. He added that Harvard hopes more schools will get involved in the recruiting effort.