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...kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...
Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 attributed the increase to recruiting efforts, Harvard’s generous financial aid program, and positive publicity associated with the College’s September decision to end early action admissions for the Class...
Schools like Harvard and Princeton already have generous financial aid programs in place. They do their job of promoting diversity by supporting families at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. The real concern is the students who don’t quite make the cut for aid but still feel the crunch of tuition hikes. It’s good that someone is finally paying attention to their predicament...
...Tuition, after all, is fundamentally a market price paid by students who can afford it, while financial aid programs cover, as much as possible, students who cannot afford full tuition—and who still sometimes receive aid that is meager or insufficient, even at schools with the most generous financial aid programs. Allocating extra funds to a tuition freeze instead of financial aid will generally benefit students paying the full tuition price more than those who are in the greatest need of financial assistance. Bolstering financial aid programs, on the other hand, distributes aid to those students who need...
...students curious about a subject far removed from their own concentration. They are also an improvement for students who wish to pursue two somewhat-related fields, but who are not sufficiently interested in their intersection to write a joint thesis. To top it off, the EPC has allocated a generous amount of resources to the nascent program, ensuring that even in pursuit of these minor concentrations, students will be advised and assisted well...