Harvard's Admissions Dean has a Blue Collar Background and wants more Such Admits

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And double kudos for profiling a student who had to deal with the paperwork and family issues when filing for finaid with divorced parents. I suspect that hurdle keeps many from applying at all.

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<p>Many of those students end up as what the linked study called “credit constrained,” and those students end up applying only at colleges with a low list price (e.g., state universities). </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/hoxby/papers/aidpaper.pdf[/url]”>http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/hoxby/papers/aidpaper.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;