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...final year of early admissions, Harvard is inviting around 60 more students to join the incoming class than it did last year, the school announced today. The preliminary early admissions rate of 21.5 percent is almost identical to that of the previous two years. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that it was too early to know socioeconomic details about the Class of 2011. He said, however, that next year’s incoming freshmen will be even more diverse in terms of ethnic groups and possible areas of concentration. There...
...mail from the school’s acting chancellor, Norman Abrams, warned that a “sophisticated computer hacker” had illegally gained access to the school’s database. The database contained information about some student applicants and parents of applicants who applied for financial aid. Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and contact information were stored on the database, according to the e-mail. The hacker “sought and retrieved” some Social Security numbers, the e-mail said. “I question why [UCLA] still had my information...
...should we trade the current system, as some of proposed, for a system of “development” admissions, in which a small number of spots in every freshman class would effectively be auctioned off, resulting in even higher revenues for everyone else’s financial aid. Relying on only mega-donations from the parents of such “development admits” is not enough. The decline in grassroots donations that would result from taking away what amounts to a feather on the admissions scale is too high of a price for the College...
Among the popular projects cited by students is the expansion of undergraduate financial aid, according to Ramaswamy. Summers announced the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative in spring 2004—an effort that now covers all tuition costs for parents in families making less than...
...India has only recently emerged as a factor on Tokyo's foreign policy radar - for decades it was featured as little more than a major recipient of Japanese development aid. Japanese businessmen showed little interest in the country, turned off by the red tape, the distance - and the decided lack of karaoke bars. Such indifference is still reflected in the small amount of trade between the two countries: Japanese investment in India last year totaled just $253 million - 4% of the amount Japanese investors committed to China over the same period. And Japan receives just 3% of Indian software exports...