May 09, 2005

Dean Parker on minority applicants

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Tom Parker is quoted in a Boston Globe “Campus Insider” article about the number of African-American students in Amherst’s recent freshman classes. Parker explained the relatively small number of black students in the class of 2008 (“fewer than half as many as the year before,” according to reporters Marcella Bombardieri and Jenna Russell) by saying that other, unnamed institutions “that say they don’t give merit scholarships and award financial aid only on the basis of need were quietly violating their policies by fiddling with their aid formulas.” After Amherst increased its efforts to attract minority students, the 1100 accepted students for the class of 2009 include 161 black students, an increase of 17 percent from a year ago.

Brian Meacham '97 | May 9, 2005 09:57 PM | Administration

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