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...year or less do not have to contribute any money, and those earning between $40,000 and $60,000 have to pay substantially less as compared to previous years. The result of this new program appears to be fairly clear, as the number of students asking for an application fee waiver rose 45 percent. While this percentage does not show exactly how many applicants will qualify under the HFAI, those requesting the waiver are very likely to be eligible for the HFAI. The increase in students seeking an application fee waiver is also a strong indication that the initiative...
...growth in the number of requests for application fee waivers was also accompanied by a 16.7 percent rise in the number of students seeking financial aid in general, another positive sign that Harvard is attempting to further diversify its student body. But while these increases in the applicant pool are important, they will be meaningless if the accepted class does not reflect this greater diversity. It is not enough to have more low-income students applying; Harvard must enroll talented, high-achieving low-income students so that the new class of first-years will reflect the diversity of the applications...
...addition, 45 percent more intend to waive the applications fee, for which lower-income students are eligible, and 16.7 percent more applicants are seeking financial aid this year, the release said...
STEPHEN M. FEE...
...City has shut down its once ubiquitous wet markets, it still isn't hard to find a live chicken for sale there. Two blocks from Cho Lon market, where rows of empty cages once housed squawking chickens, a vegetable vendor offers to locate live poultry for a finder's fee of about 60?. She leads her customers to a back alley where a woman in a baseball cap opens several plastic bags, revealing four live chickens. For $2.50, the woman?who refuses to give her name?grabs a bird and slits its throat, letting the blood drain onto a tray...