"It's one of the largest international groups," he says.
Encouraging the Scholars of the Future
And McCavana says that he would like Harvard to adopt other school's strategy of having a summer program specifically for minorities.
"Students come while they are in college or high school, not with the goal of necessarily attracting students to that school, but grad school in general," he says.
Without such outreach efforts, they say, potential academic stars who might not have otherwise thought of Harvard may fall through the cracks.
"We want to be assured that this institution is taking full advantage of human resources," Berg says. "We want to make sure we are attracting the very best students."