Although the First-Year Advisory Counselor Program has been criticized for its lack of diversity in past years, FAC board co-chairs Geoff Bass and Bronwyn Lewis, both seniors, said this year's group of counselors is more ethnically diverse due to a more diverse recruitment pool.

The percentage of Asian students accepted as FACs has doubled since last year, and the number of multiracial students has seen a fivefold increase, Bass and Lewis wrote in an e-mail.

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