Word: scholarships
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There is abundant evidence that the College has assembled an outstanding array of the nation's best young scholars. The College attracted 314 National Merit Scholarship winners last year; the colleges with the next largest numbers had 203, 169, 141 and 113 respectively. The three colleges enrolling the largest numbers of winners in the National Achivement Scholarship for African-American students were Harvard and Radcliffe with 55, followed by 34 at the second institution and 25 at the third. Of the 20 finalists in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, 11 enrolled this year at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...from alumni is a vital component of financial aid and the University's academic programs. Without this support we would not have been able to maintain the current need-blind admission policy. Last year, for example, over $36 million were contributed by alumni to the Harvard College Fund. Restricted scholarship fund (donors "restricted" their use to scholarships) are the largest single source of our financial aid budget. Very nearly all of those funds--that together yield more than half of college financial aid-were established by alumni. In fact nine out of every 10 scholarship dollars are provided by alumni...
...Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) convene in Cambridge three times a year, and comprise an important link between alumni and the University. The HAA currently lists 37,616 dues-paying members of Harvard and Radcliffe clubs, which work with the University in a variety of ways, including raising scholarship funds and sponsoring Schools and Scholarships Committees...
Public health is one of the areas in which Congress has promised to be most generous to children. The law provides that everyone under 19 and living below the poverty line is to be covered under Medicaid by the end of the century. Scholarship funding for the National Health Service Corps, which helps bring medical services to rural families, is to be revived. Child advocates cheered the results. "We've got off on the right track for the '90s," said Sara Rosenbaum of the Children's Defense Fund. But she cautioned, "The question is whether we're going to live...
...focus has already produced results--more than 1000 newly registered Massachusetts voters, a success rate that student leaders are attributing in large part to concern over CLT. According to Jane Felton, president of the school's Democratic club, Tufts would be particularly hard-hit by the cuts in state scholarship funds that the referendum will cause...