Word: need-blind
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Harvard is one of only a few institutions that offers need-blind admissions for both international and domestic students, Fitzsimmons said...
...other words, the group of academically admittable students is disproportionately rich. Assuming that Harvard’s admissions office operates on the need-blind meritocratic system it claims to, a free Harvard would still have a high composition of the white, rich kids from whom advocates of a tuitionless college are so hopeful to separate Harvard’s reputation...
...Harvard a wonderful place? We have waffles with alma mater seals, Professor Sandel, gates that invite you to “grow in wisdom,” and, of course, a deep commitment to equal opportunity. That last ideal, in particular, permeates every aspect of campus policy, from need-blind admissions to anonymous grading. But few initiatives are as important as one undertaken by the Accessible Education Office...
...merit—rather than characteristics such as birth, tradition, race, gender, class, religion, age, and sexual orientation—should determine advancement up the social “ladder” or hierarchy. Accordingly, the answer to inequality to which many schools, including Harvard, offer or aspire is need-blind admissions: If you are academically good enough, you will get in regardless of your financial status...
...realize that many students are concerned that our efforts will hurt financial aid for future students. However, despite its lofty language, the traditional Senior Gift does not directly improve financial aid. Harvard is 100 percent need-blind and in competition with other top schools for the country’s brightest students—future generations will receive aid in accordance with standing policy regardless of the Senior Gift...