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Even with preferences given to lower-income students, it’s hard to turn down some of the world-class students who apply to Harvard, the admissions dean argues. And whereas other schools with lower yields can afford to admit a larger chunk than they expect to matriculate, Harvard has to narrow things down early, leaving it less room to work with...
...Amherst, in order to lure admitted lower-income students into coming, the college pays for the visits of between 185 and 200 students who couldn’t otherwise afford a trip, according to Parker. At Harvard, where more students overall are from low-income backgrounds, this number was only 95 last year, Director of Financial Aid Sally Donahue says. Columbia offers an entire scholarship program earmarked specifically for students from poor backgrounds that assures a set number of low-income applicants will get in each year, and acts as its own advertisement for affordability...
...After noting the psychological power of promising away debts, the college eliminated loans for low-income students. Amherst also tries to attract that bracket by offering two “opportunity weekends,” or paid visits for about 200 admitted students who couldn’t otherwise afford to make the trip...
...What will America's presidential candidates do about the host of conflicts in which the U.S. has become embroiled? President George W. Bush seems only recently to have come to the realization that he has bitten off more than he can chew?or afford, for that matter. The Administration has created a royal mess of things that I'm sure was not anticipated. Maybe Bush will be thankful to exit office at the end of one term, leaving the next President with a horribly daunting task: trying to glue the broken world back together. Lynelle Grobler Pretoria...
While some of you are tutoring high school students for the SAT through the CHANCE program, the Bush education cuts and tax cut agenda, which has contributed to a rise in state college tuitions of 14 percent, has made it that much harder for their families to afford a college education...