Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College et al

Filing 421

DECLARATION re 412 MOTION for Summary Judgment by Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5, # 6 Exhibit 6, # 7 Exhibit 7, # 8 Exhibit 8, # 9 Exhibit 9, # 10 Exhibit 10, # 11 Exhibit 11, # 12 Exhibit 12, # 13 Exhibit 13, # 14 Exhibit 14, # 15 Exhibit 15, # 16 Exhibit 16, # 17 Exhibit 17, # 18 Exhibit 18, # 19 Exhibit 19, # 20 Exhibit 20, # 21 Exhibit 21, # 22 Exhibit 22, # 23 Exhibit 23, # 24 Exhibit 24, # 25 Exhibit 25, # 26 Exhibit 26, # 27 Exhibit 27, # 28 Exhibit 28, # 29 Exhibit 29, # 30 Exhibit 30, # 31 Exhibit 31, # 32 Exhibit 32, # 33 Exhibit 33, # 34 Exhibit 34, # 35 Exhibit 35, # 36 Exhibit 36, # 37 Exhibit 37, # 38 Exhibit 38, # 39 Exhibit 39, # 40 Exhibit 40, # 41 Exhibit 41, # 42 Exhibit 42, # 43 Exhibit 43, # 44 Exhibit 44, # 45 Exhibit 45, # 46 Exhibit 46, # 47 Exhibit 47, # 48 Exhibit 48, # 49 Exhibit 49, # 50 Exhibit 50, # 51 Exhibit 51, # 52 Exhibit 52, # 53 Exhibit 53, # 54 Exhibit 54, # 55 Exhibit 55, # 56 Exhibit 56, # 57 Exhibit 57, # 58 Exhibit 58, # 59 Exhibit 59, # 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223 Exhibit 223, # 224 Exhibit 224, # 225 Exhibit 225, # 226 Exhibit 226, # 227 Exhibit 227, # 228 Exhibit 228, # 229 Exhibit 229, # 230 Exhibit 230, # 231 Exhibit 231, # 232 Exhibit 232, # 233 Exhibit 233, # 234 Exhibit 234, # 235 Exhibit 235, # 236 Exhibit 236, # 237 Exhibit 237, # 238 Exhibit 238, # 239 Exhibit 239, # 240 Exhibit 240, # 241 Exhibit 241, # 242 Exhibit 242, # 243 Exhibit 243, # 244 Exhibit 244, # 245 Exhibit 245, # 246 Exhibit 246, # 247 Exhibit 247, # 248 Exhibit 248, # 249 Exhibit 249, # 250 Exhibit 250, # 251 Exhibit 251, # 252 Exhibit 252, # 253 Exhibit 253, # 254 Exhibit 254, # 255 Exhibit 255, # 256 Exhibit 256, # 257 Exhibit 257, # 258 Exhibit 258, # 259 Exhibit 259, # 260 Exhibit 260, # 261 Exhibit 261)(Consovoy, William) (Additional attachment(s) added on 6/18/2018: # 262 Unredacted version of Declaration, # 263 Exhibit 1 (filed under seal), # 264 Exhibit 2 (filed under seal), # 265 Exhibit 5 (filed under seal), # 266 Exhibit 6 (filed under seal), # 267 Exhibit 7 (filed under seal), # 268 Exhibit 8 (filed under seal), # 269 Exhibit 9 (filed under seal), # 270 Exhibit 10 (filed under seal)) (Montes, Mariliz). 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What We Look For | Harvard College

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Harvard College Admissions & Financial Aid

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What We Look For
How Your Application is Considered
In our admissions process, we give careful, individual
attention to each applicant. We seek to identify students
who will be the best educators of one another and their
professors—individuals who will inspire those around
them during their College years and beyond.
As we read and discuss your application, many questions
will be on our minds. Some things we consider:

Growth and potential

FACTS ABOUT FINANCIAL AID

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Amount that parents making less
than $65,000 are expected
to contribute.

Ninety percent of American families
would pay the same or less to
%
send their children to Harvard as
they would a state school.

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• Have you reached your maximum academic and
personal potential?
• Have you been stretching yourself?

VISIT HARVARD

• Have you been working to capacity in your academic
pursuits, your full-time or part-time employment, or
other areas?
• Do you have reserve power to do more?
• How have you used your time?
• Do you have initiative? Are you a self-starter? What
motivates you?

Stroll through Harvard Yard,
ask Admissions staff all your
questions, and feel the
warmth of the Harvard
community. See tour dates
and times.

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• Do you have a direction yet? What is it? If not, are you
exploring many things?

REQUEST INFORMATION

• Where will you be in one, five, or 25 years? Will you
contribute something to those around you?

Join our mailing list to learn
about the Harvard
College experience.

• What sort of human being are you now? What sort of
human being will you be in the future?
ADMISSIONS BROCHURE

Interests and activities
• Do you care deeply about anything—intellectual?
Extracurricular? Personal?

Download a PDF of the
Harvard College Admissions
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• What have you learned from your interests? What
have you done with your interests? How have you
achieved results? With what success or failure? What
have you learned as a result?
• In terms of extracurricular, athletic, community, or
family commitments, have you taken full advantage
of opportunities?
• What is the quality of your activities? Do you appear to
have a genuine commitment or leadership role?
• If you have not had much time in high school for
extracurricular pursuits due to familial, work, or other
obligations, what do you hope to explore at Harvard
with your additional free time?

Character and personality
• What choices have you made for yourself? Why?
• Are you a late bloomer?
• How open are you to new ideas and people?
• What about your maturity, character, leadership, selfconfidence, warmth of personality, sense of humor,
energy, concern for others, and grace under pressure?

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Contribution to the Harvard community
• Will you be able to stand up to the pressures and
freedoms of College life?
• Will you contribute something to Harvard and to your
classmates? Will you benefit from your
Harvard experience?
• Would other students want to room with you, share a
meal, be in a seminar together, be teammates, or
collaborate in a closely knit extracurricular group?
Our admissions process enables us to give deliberate and
meticulous consideration of each applicant as a whole
person. It is labor intensive, but permits extraordinary
flexibility and the possibility of changing decisions
virtually until the day the Admissions Committee mails
them. This is especially important since we are always
receiving new information about applicants.
Of course, no process is perfect. Inevitably, some students
who are not admitted will see great success, and even with
a 97 to 98 percent graduation rate, some admitted
students might have been better served at another
institution. However, we do everything possible to make
the best admissions decisions for each student.
Two additional resources you may wish to review:
• An overview of our admissions process in the New
York Times
• An essay by Helen Vendler, a beloved professor of
English at Harvard and former member of the Faculty
Standing Committee on Admissions

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