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...fact, Harvard could give aid to middle-and lower-income students on the scale of its peers using money already earmarked for financial...
Moreover, given the improvements in financial aid policy announced by these three schools in the past month--changes which Harvard has not answered with a plan of its own--Harvard risks falling behind the pack and losing many middle-and lower-income applicants...
...time for the University to acknowledge what it has at stake: the diverse economic background of its students, its ability to compete on equal footing with its closest rivals, and ultimately its prestige and place in the eyes of applicants. It is time for Harvard to lower its tuition and to strengthen its system of financial aid. EDITORIAL POLICY: Staff editorials represent the official positions of The Harvard Crimson. Dissents, letters, illustrations and signed commentary reflect the opinions of their authors and do not necessarily represent the views of The Crimson...
...second option--already in effect, according to what some professors say and others do--is consciously to give out lower grades. The rumored "one A per section" rule in some Core classes is a case in point. But this plan is not wise. It drives away serious students unwilling to sacrifice their pride and, possibly, their degree of future success to appease what appears to be a professor's mean streak...
What of a college-wide initiative for lower grades? If you thought financial aid, large classes and shoddy advising were driving pre-frosh away, wait 'til Harvard is known as the cruelest place in the Ivy League. And besides, with the pressures students place on graders to give high marks and the grading expectations inculcated in high schools everywhere, such an initiative would be doomed to failure...