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Harvard currently maintains "needblind"financial aid policies that it says allow theCollege to admit any student, regardless ofability...
...Jewett was appointed dean of admissions and financial aid. During his 13 years in the post, he implemented the current needblind admissions policy, which requires the admissions committee to evaluate applicants without reference to their ability to pay tuition...
Some colleges have already deserted their need-blind policies. According to Donald C. Wolfe, acting director of financial aid at Brown, the Providence college no longer practices needblind admissions...
...that can effectively represent student opinion, we may fail. Two years ago the issue was divestiture; two decades ago it was a foreign war, and student participation in policy-making; two centuries ago it was "butter that stinketh not." Two years from now it may be divestiture, the draft, needblind admissions, a new foreign war, or something totally unforeseen. If we reject these for safer issues today, they will return to haunt us and undo our "safe" work tomorrow...
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