Word: need-blind
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...admitted that because of Harvard's current commitment to need-blind admissions and full need based aid, the effects of financial aid cuts would probably not be so immediate here as they would be at other schools. But he emphasized that Harvard students should still be concerned...
...council's job, Jenkins says, is to approach the issue from a campus perspective. "We should be working with the administration and the [Harvard] Corporation to get a commitment to need-blind admissions written into University law," Jenkins said...
...equipped to deal with government cuts than almost all other universities. We are fortunate that enough resources can be gathered to pick up this Republican-induced slack. But many other schools with smaller endowments will have to turn students away. Some that have been considering the abandonment of their need-blind admissions policies--even in the Ivy League--might not be able to resist any longer...
...took several years to implement fully the current system. And today, as more and more universities are moving away from fully need-blind admissions processes because of lack of funds, Harvard continues to use a large portion of its funds to ensure that this system can remain intact...
...place like Harvard can compensate for [federal] cut-backs [but] a lot of places do not have the resources to begin with," Jewett says. "Places like Harvard maintain [need-blind admissions] but most can't realistically maintain...