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...weeks ago Wesleyan University announced that it was abandoning its aid-blind policy because of federal cuts...
...week expressed concern that the President's most recent threatened cuts in aid--termed by one national spokesman "the greatest crisis high education has seen for years"--may force them to consider alternatives to Harvard's traditional guarantee of full aid to all accepted applicants. Other colleges, most recently Wesleyan, have already had to forswear such policies...
...About 75 Wesleyan students staged a small rally Saturday to protest the decision, but most students were more disappointed than angry. Randy Siegal, a co-editor of the student newspaper Argus, said yesterday...
Jewett, who is studying Harvard's options in case federal cuts make it impossible to maintain the present aid-blind policy, drew a distinction between Wesleyan's decision to reject students asking for aid--without giving them the chance to try to find alternate ways of paying tuition--and the "admit-deny" option. Under the latter, which Jewett said he probably would favor, a student would be told he qualified for admission on merit grounds but that the college couldn't afford to give...
...added that Wesleyan's public shift would be unlikely to spur other colleges to take similar actions immediately. Wesleyan has traditionally been "so specific" in its commitment to diversity and to aid-blind admission. Jewett said, that the shift may have appeared more significant that it would at other institutions...