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Bryce E. Caswell ’07 is a government concentrator in Quincy House. Precious E. Eboigbe ’07 is a history and science concentrator in Adams House. They are both HFAI student coordinators...
...long run, we hope that HFAI will fulfill a greater mission than simply increasing the number of low-income students that come to Cambridge. Its ultimate goal is to increase high school aged students’ awareness about the practicality of a college education, even if that does not mean attending Harvard. We seek to raise awareness of available financial aid and encourage all students to attend college and think about colleges they may not have thought of applying to. Indeed, the HFAI office coordinators are trained to answer questions about admissions, college life, and financial aid so they...
Harvard’s increased commitment to HFAI is an exciting and groundbreaking transformation in making college more accessible to people of different economic backgrounds. Harvard continues to see an increase in requests for information about this program and the caliber of applicants continues to increase. The next milestone, and one that will take more than just Harvard’s endowment, is to inform students about HFAI and the potential of attending college at the grassroots level. The face of higher education is changing and programs like HFAI will surely help shape its future...
...Harvard were free, one could bet on significant change. Firstly, the 18 percent rise in applications after Summers’ introduction of the Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) two years ago proved many still saw Harvard education as inaccessible. Others consider the campus a snobbish dungeon. A free Harvard would remake Harvard’s public image, ensuring a truly universal applicant pool. Secondly, students could forget about their summer expected earnings or work-study requirements and could fully focus on their studies and extracurriculars. White-collar parents’ nightmares about college would diminish, if not cease. Such a transformation...
...effect of Harvard’s actions would touch more than the 1,675 students Harvard can take every year. Our rival institutions would be pressured to make their education more accessible or free, as Yale, Stanford, and others did with HFAI. Although not everyone can go to college, Harvard can lead a new commitment to progress and equality of opportunity by opening higher education to everyone, regardless of their parents’ checkbook...