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Wesleyan is one of small minority of colleges--including Harvard and Swarthmore--that up till now have pursued a completely "aid-blind" admissions policy, under which they promise to spend as much money on aid as it necessary to let accepted applicants attend, Harvard and Wesleyan admissions officers said yesterday...
...colleges, they added, have finite budgets for financial aid that make it impossible to fund needy applicants beyond a certain print. Harvard and Wesleyan, on the other hand, have the option off drawing on unrestricted funds--money from the College's general budget--to fulfill the goal of aid-blind admissions...
Jewett, who is studying Harvard's options in case federal cuts make it impossible to maintain the present aid-blind policy, drew a distinction between Wesleyan's decision to reject students asking for aid--without giving them the chance to try to find alternate ways of paying tuition--and the "admit-deny" option. Under the latter, which Jewett said he probably would favor, a student would be told he qualified for admission on merit grounds but that the college couldn't afford to give...
...added that Wesleyan's public shift would be unlikely to spur other colleges to take similar actions immediately. Wesleyan has traditionally been "so specific" in its commitment to diversity and to aid-blind admission. Jewett said, that the shift may have appeared more significant that it would at other institutions...
Although all freshmen are assigned to their houses by lottery, the transfer process varies widely from house to house. Mather, for example, uses a "blind" method; Eliot and Lowell use what Neer called a "more personal" system of mandatory interviews...