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...formulas by which need is adjusted have also remained unchanged, says Acting Financial Aid Director Seamus P. Malin. Malin, an assistant admissions dean who is filling in this year on the aid-office post he held six years ago, says the level of panic and of appeals for reevaluation is about the same as he remembers--as is the number of students who actually drop out for economic reasons. Of these, the aid office sees "only the really dramatic ones, maybe ten a year," Malin says, while the Ad Board handles the rest. And of these, Malin draws a distinction...
...Malin joins most observers, however, in detecting a much higher level of "aid anxiety," which may be more than usually active in making families "interpret the decision [to cut aid] as a personal one." But those noticing it far more are the admissions officers--who this year saw financial reasons cited by 45 percent of those turning down Harvard--and Hicks, who counsels those same prospective freshmen and their parents. Between confusion over new procedures and worry over long-term aid prospects, "there was never a point in the year where you felt everything had resolved itself," Hicks recalls...
Seamus P. Malin, acting financial aid director, raises the possibility of rupturing the crucial relationship between his office and families of aid recipients...
...Malin also asks the sticky question of just how Harvard would respond to enforcement of the new law. "What are we supposed to do? Let them drop out? Or replace that money with Harvard money, in which case, it will seem that we are rewarding people for having flouted...
...Part of the criteria for choosing these people was that they have a certain amount of adventure and strength," Malin says, adding he expects even more PRC applicants this year...