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...essentially, Harvard depends on prestige and reputation alone to keep up its numbers of Black students. Without offering free-rides, special perks, merit-based aid or better concentrating its recruitment efforts, Harvard has little bargaining leverage in the bidding war for highly qualified Black students...
...didn't really feel like Harvard wanted me to come," says Solita C. Alexander '97, a commended student in the National Merit Achievement Awards who was admitted early action. "Brown [University] made much more of an effort...They did more calling than Harvard and that really made it hard [to decide between them...
James L. Price III '97, a star football player and National Merit Award semifinalist from Lynwood, Calif., says in addition to a Dartmouth weekend, he was offered full tuition at Loyola, a college that openly recruits outstanding athletes...
With an aloof recruiting attitude, with a dearth of minority recruiters and with its hands tied by its commitment to need-based aid, Harvard can't compete with free-rides, merit-based scholarships and perks. Most Black admits who decide not to matriculate are lost to schools who can offer them merit-based or athletic scholarships, according to Director of Financial Aid James S. Miller...
Although many of the Black admits interviewed received merit-based scholarships, all of those who applied for financial aid say their Harvard packages were within a couple thousand dollars of their other aid offers. But last year, almost 40 Black students who chose to decline a Harvard acceptance said they received better financial packages than Harvard offered by a margin of $10,000 or more...