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...admissions office points to the expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI)—which will cover about 25 percent of the incoming class—as well as extensive recruiting efforts as major factors in the College’s high yield rates...
...While that won't leave Kouchner without anything to do, it does mean the nature of his role will differ from previous foreign ministers, likely becoming a more specialized function that will utilize Kouchner's humanitarian background. "The Foreign Minister is now partly a protocol position, partly a humanitarian aid and development role," says Jean-Christophe Rufin, an award-winning author, former diplomat and one-time vice president of the M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "You're not going to see Kouchner riding herd on Franco-German relations, but that's not what he's interested in anyway...
...admissions office points to the expansion of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative—which will cover about 25 percent of the incoming class—as well as extensive recruiting efforts as major factors in the College’s high yield rates. The College expanded the initiative this year, making a Harvard education free for students whose families make less than $60,000 and lessening the required contribution for families that make between...
...recent years, however, that playing field has been increasingly leveled. Financial aid in the Ivy League has risen to the point where families who contribute the least receive the equivalent of a full ride. At Harvard, families making below $60,000 do not have to pay any tuition at all, and similar programs have arisen at Yale and Princeton...
Patrick R. Griffin ’05, once a baseball player under Walsh, now serves as the assistant director of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI). Part of the solution to rectifying the scholarship problem, he says, is changing public perceptions about the climate of the school. Students in general have balked at Harvard based on name and reputation alone, but “in the last 30 years, there’s really been a revolution in what a typical group of Harvard student looks like...