Word: aid
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...23rd time in nearly three decades, Harvard last year received more money in contributions than any other university in the nation, according to the latest tally by the Council for Economic Aid to Education...
...Harvard alumni are extremely important to the quality of education here," Shattuck said. They have been "impressedby the fact that Harvard has a need-blindadmissions policy" and by the University'swidespread financial aid grants, he said...
...were playing a "variation of the old con game, 'Heads I win; tails you lose.' " Declared Michel: "We refuse to play." Recognizing that he had been outwitted, O'Neill withdrew the measure. But where did that leave the contras? In confused limbo. The Senate has approved the President's aid request; the House has not. Michel announced that he intends to seek a "clean" vote on the funding by rounding up the required signatures of a majority of the House (218 members) to bring a bill directly to the floor. If he succeeds, the earliest vote could come...
Last year the school also lured 121 National Merit Scholars with $5,000 annual aid packages and spent an average of $1,000 each in recruiting other students. Since 1981, average SAT scores have risen from 1095 to 1200, and the student body has been cut to 2,759. "Colleges should expect a higher quality of work," says Calgaard, "and if they don't get it they simply shouldn't pass the student...
School officials have ticketed the interest from $43 million for student aid, and have available the interest from an additional $30 million from the endowment. Some 400 alumni find recruits, and DePauw students stage phone-a- thons with prospective freshmen. Part of the push is aimed at leavening DePauw's in-state enrollments (37% of the student body) with outlanders, who now come from 40 states and 17 foreign countries. Next year's tuition will be no steal ($8,200), but 60% of DePauw's students get aid...