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More than 70 transfer students were accepted late this spring almost twice as many as last year. Dean of Financial Aid and Admissions L. Fred Jewett 57 said that more transfer students were accepted because the college discontinued its year-old policy of accepting certain freshmen under the condition that they commute. Although transfer students are not guaranteed housing wait list after arriving in September...
Harvard does not award special merit scholarships or give more money to minorities, but Jewett said that the University did not lose that many students to colleges which do. Most of the Blacks turning down Harvard, in fact, decided to go to other Ivy League schools, with 18 going to Yale, and 17 to Princeton...
...Jewett said he did not have the breakdowns for particular minority groups and could not account for the poor Black yield this year...
...practice, there sometimes seems to be a fine line between need and merit. Harvard Admissions Dean L. Fred Jewett 1 admits that if a desirable student 1 reports a substantially higher offer from another college, his office will "reassess" and perhaps up the original cash offer. Harvard has no plans to change its basic tactics. Says Jewett: "We feel that merit awards are not where limited resources should go." But Jewett adds: "If more and more students opted not to come, the university would certainly have to look hard at the policy...
Rosovsky, in an interview yesterday, said that Harvard's financial aid office has increased efforts in the last year to let students better know their aid opportunities. In addi- tion. I. Pred Jewett '57, does of admission and financial aid, said that the last several months has brought "much more helped publicity" about student aid possibilities...