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Re “Following handbook in Harvard admission: Interviewers told not to note race” (Metro, Nov. 2): When one considers the restrictions currently placed on Harvard alumni when interviewing applicants — for example, do not ask “about a student’s race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, or politics” or even about what the applicant’s parents do for work — these conversations become material for “Saturday Night Live” sketches (“So, Timothy, tell me your thoughts about string cheese. Please keep that bag over your head while speaking into the voice-distortion microphone”). All of this would be laugh-out-loud funny if it weren’t so sad. How scared can an Ivy League school get?
