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What accounts for these Byzantine rules? Since the 1960s, Harvard has advertised that its admissions process is “need blind.” Reviewers don’t see applicants’ financial aid files, so Harvard can guarantee that it’s not just cherry-picking students who can pay full-price. By contrast, other schools (including Tufts) routinely reject some applicants from low-income families because the financial aid burden would be too heavy...
...other data to identify low-income applicants. In some cases, according to Donahue, officers even look at whether a student sought a waiver from the $65 application fee. But detailed information on family finances remains off-limits. So Harvard isn’t actually “need blind;” it’s “need vision-impaired...
...codes and other data are accurate predictors of socioeconomic background, then it’s simply misleading to say (as the College does) that admissions are need blind. Need is known. If, on the other hand, the portrait painted by current information is imprecise, then Harvard is falling short in its effort to factor financial hardship into admissions...
...Tunes, they have produced a string of hits, including Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina,” Don Omar’s “Dale Don Dale,” and several remixes of Paris Hilton’s “Stars are Blind.”On April 28, the award-winning duo will return to campus to host Presencia Latina, the annual Latino cultural celebration which features performances from Ballet Folklórico, Candela Salsa, Mariachi Veritas de Harvard, and others. Visiting Harvard is a symbolic homecoming for the duo, at least...
...says Joe R. Posner, who runs the Brown Concert Agency, adding “That said, at Brown, I’m pretty sure everyone knows who The Flaming Lips and The Roots are.” But, ever the diplomat, Posner says of Third Eye Blind: “I know everybody liked those songs when I was in 6th grade.” Indeed, for 3EB, 6th grade was a good year. “The only negative reaction I’ve heard is that they are a band that hasn?...