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...cost of educating a student at Harvard is only partially offset by the tuition it receives, even from those students who do not qualify for financial aid. In fact, student tuition and fees constituted less than 33 percent of the revenue Harvard received in 1988. The remaining 66 percent came from interest earned on the endowment (17.2%), private gifts (19.7%) and government and institutional grants (30.9%). As income from these sources has decreased as a percentage of total revenue over the past few years, Harvard has had to look to other places to pick up the slack. Moreover, the University...
...late 1950s, Dean of the College L. Watson created a review committee to "add diversity" to the houses by taking 30 percent of house assignment away from the masters...
Student choice was on the rise, however. In 1959, 66 percent of freshmen gained entrance to their top choice. In 1965, the last year of this process, 70 percent received their first choice...
...computer system, programmed to diversify the Houses by evenly distributing students according to field of concentration, rank group, high school background and master's preference, resulted in fewer than half of all freshmen receiving their first choice. Fifteen percent were denied all their top five choices...
...system was not as well received by students, primarily because it did not maximize first choice. Eleven percent of freshmen received one of their last three choices...