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

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Now to be totally straightforward:
Can’t private schools spend the money to run credit reports on noncustodial parents, or can’t the custodial parent just pay a fee to have the report run, and save students the pain of getting someone in the community to sign a form or write a letter that says “My dad’s a deadbeat?”</p>

<p>Why should the colleges do so? On top of dealing with 20k applications? And sometimes, colleges consider the deadbeat dad problem not their problem. That happened to an applicant to BC. BC made it clear that it disapproved of the deadbeat divorced dad, but would not budge on the finaid.

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<p>Dadx:
Ah, but the story is not about Fitzsimmons arriving resentful. It’s really about his loving it so much that he is still there 44 years after first setting foot on campus, and making it his life’s work to getting others like him to attend.</p>