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...experiences of Conti-Brown and other students from disadvantaged economic backgrounds were what led in part to the creation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) in February 2004 and its subsequent expansion in 2006. Parents in families with incomes of less than $60,000 are no longer expected to contribute to their children’s costs of attending at Harvard. Families that earn a total income of between $60,000 and $80,000 have their expected contributions reduced, and are supported by additional initiatives...
...worked informally with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid and then-University President Lawrence H. Summers on the project, would become HFAI’s 2004-2005 undergraduate director. He and a group of other students pushed hard for the recruiting of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds. HFAI student coordinators spent the summer after HFAI was announced calling thousands of low-income students across the students, encouraging them to apply regardless of concerns about Harvard’s high price...
...they did. The percentage of students who qualified has increased to successively every year, according to Melanie Brennand Mueller ’01, a financial aid officer. Next year, Harvard will admit its fourth class under the HFAI recruiting program...
...When I first came to Harvard, I thought people would be friends regardless of economic background, but my social circle ended up being a lot of HFAI students or students on financial aid,” says Juan S. Arias ’09, a recipient of HFAI...
...There are a lot of mental barriers,” says Jeffrey Kwong ’09, another student receiving HFAI. “And there are definitely social differences. Students like me, who are on HFAI and use the Student Events Fund to get tickets to things aren’t going to be going to Final Clubs anytime soon...