McCavana says that this fall Berg and a faculty member from the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences went to the University of Maryland this fall to recruit minority students in engineering.
Students say the school's efforts pay off.
Gardenhire, a sixth year graduate student in urban planning, says that meeting a Harvard representative , "Made a big difference in my own decidion to come [here]."
Gardenhire was living in Virginia seven years ago when she talked with Stephanie A. Parsons, coordinator for minority recruitment for GSAS about Harvard.
Parsons gave her an application fee waver and "made it as easy as possible to apply," Gardenhire says. "Meeting someone gave it a human face, because Harvard is a big name."
Once students are accepted to GSAS, the University pays for their airfare to Cambridge so that they can check out the campus and meet faculty and students.
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