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Seamus P. Malin '62, assistant dean of admissions, describes the applicant pool as a self-selected one. Most admissions officers say at least 80 per cent of all candidates are capable of surviving academically here. The number of acceptable candidates only diminishes as one begins to assess who would make a positive contribution--academic or otherwise--to the University. Jewett says 60 per cent of the pool is composed of students he would readily admit; David L. Evans, senior admissions officer, sets that figure at 40 per cent. Either way, the actual 17-per-cent acceptance rate represents...
Seamus P. Malin '62, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid, was the director of financial aid when the underspending occured. Malin was unavailable for comment yesterday...
Seamus P. Malin '62, Harvard's director of financial aid, said last week that in four or five years the Ivy schools may find they are losing students because they do not offer them merit-based scholarships. Nonetheless, the Ivy schools should reaffirm their policy of offering need-based aid only: there is not so much scholarship money available to those who need it that it can be used as a carrot for wealthier students without adversely altering the composition of the student body...
...Seamus P. Malin '62, director of financial aid, said yesterday the number of students who decline places here in favor of schools that offer merit-based financial aid seems to have increased in recent years...
...Malin said he believes the question is more an "Ivy-wide issue" than a problem for Harvard, because Harvard's acceptance ratio continues to be extremely high...