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Remember the summer before you came to Harvard, when your parents got a letter asking them to tell the freshman dean what you're really like? That letter is at this very moment sitting in your confidential files, but it looks like it won't be there long.

The parents' letters will probably be the first casualty of the open-files law (see story above). The Freshman Dean's Office has decided the letter isn't much use to freshman advisers after the fall term, Dean Whitlock said yesterday.

Whitlock said there are now under consideration two possible fates for the letters: sending them back to parents en masse, or destroying them all.