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Adapted by Edward Duke...
Schools like Duke or the University of Chicago have also begun to attract Black students with special merit scholarships admissions officials at the Ivy League schools and Stanford said last week. One example is student Patricia Campbell, a high school senior in Baltimore, who said yesterday that she chose to enroll in Duke over Harvard because she won a four-year scholarship which includes special summer travel programs...
Harvard took too long to reply to her petition for financial aid, Campbell said, adding that although her first choice had previously been Harvard. Duke showed much more interest in her and actively pursued her even after she won the scholarship...
Black students' wariness at coming to Harvard stems from considerations other than just financial aid, Fitzgerald said. Admissions officials agreed, noting that although many Black students turned Harvard down to go to schools like the University of Virginia or Duke, which offer special scholarships, most Black students turned Harvard down to go to other Ivy League schools, which offer roughly the same amount of financial aid. Out of the 87 students turning Harvard down, more than 70 percent are going to other Ivy League schools or Stanford or MIT, said George Sanchez '81, an admissions officer who also helps oversee...
Applying with perfect 800 SAT scores, Eric Engels of Springfield, Va., whose father is an engineer, was offered a four-year scholarship to the University of Virginia worth $4,900 his first year, as well as awards from Duke, Chicago, and Washington University in St. Louis. Says he: "I was approached by some of the Ivy League schools, but they don't offer a specific financial academic scholarship." Engels' choice: Virginia. "I picked the better deal is what it came down to," he says. "It's about time they gave the same attention and money to scholars...