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...Admissions Office estimates that almost 360 students in the Class of 2009 will qualify for aid under the new HFAI standards—a full 22 percent more than the Class...
...HFAI prefrosh reception last Friday in Loker Commons, many members of the Class of ’09 mentioned the importance of the program in their decision to apply to and attend Harvard...
...says that Harvard is covering 90 percent of his tuition, initially didn’t consider Harvard because of its elitist reputation. “I was under the impression that Harvard was what it was 30 years ago,” he says. After being contacted by HFAI, Harrison reconsidered his position and applied. “Without HFAI, I probably wouldn’t be here...
Similarly, Benowitz, a sprightly prefrosh from a performing arts school in New York City, said that Harvard was on her radar “only as a dream school—one of the ones you don’t go to,” until she learned about HFAI...
...results of HFAI’s work can be seen not only in students such as Rincon, Harrison, and Benowitz, but in those similarly lower-income students who will follow them to elite universities in the coming years. For example, after receiving recruitment letters from HFAI and the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP), Rincon applied, accepted, and matriculated. But it didn’t stop there. Mike A. Nguyen ’09, another low-income soon-to-be graduate of Century High School, followed her lead and applied to Harvard the next year. Rincon and Nguyen were the first...