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...recently reported that the Class of 2013 will receive an unprecedented $147 million in financial aid next year. Financial aid needs to continue to be a priority. The caliber and integrity of our educational experience depends on keeping Harvard a financial possibility for all qualified students, regardless of their background...
...financial status a bigger factor in their admissions decisions, then they should be clear about this with students. If they need more information about applicants, they should request it instead of trying to ascertain financial need using deceptive tactics such as evaluating zip codes or parent’s background. These methods are underhanded and do not provide an accurate picture of a family’s financial situation or a student’s ability to afford school. As hard as it is to tell students that their backgrounds might hurt their applications, it is worse to let them...
...been made of the potential economic benefits of donation, a term that belies its lucrativeness: egg donors can earn about $5,000 per donation, with thousands more in premiums for eggs from women with exceptional looks, high SAT scores or an Ivy League diploma, and an in-demand ethnic background, such as Jewish or Asian. Proven donors whose eggs have already succeeded in making a baby are also often paid premiums for subsequent donations. (Read "How Not to Get Misled by Health Statistics...
...group I was working for had no background whatsoever to be working on those,” Mack says, adding that, to her knowledge, several of her colleagues were not licensed securities traders. “Sometimes the ways they handled even basic Black-Scholes models [widely used to price stock options] were puzzling...
...Mack stresses that she has nothing personal against Larson and that he was a very adept stock trader, but that he “had no background to be trading derivatives...