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...week is the average number endured by only one and a half square miles, or five specific neighborhoods of Boston, a community of which Harvard is a major part. These neighborhoods include Dudley Square, Grove Hall, the South End/Lower Roxbury, Morton and Norfolk Streets area in Dorchester, and the Bowdoin and Geneva Street area of Dorchester...
...Harvard before he knew more about it.“I felt like not being informed about Harvard as a college was an issue. If I had known the liberal arts feel, I might have applied,” Brebnor said.Brebnor’s list included Amherst, Bowdoin, and Williams.Rose A. Aldea, a QuestBridge Scholar and freshman at Columbia, said she “probably” would have applied to Harvard if it were part of the program, but she was doubtful she would have attended, as Columbia was her first choice.Joseph L. Barnett, a QuestBridge Scholar...
...suggested that there may be a time in the near future when the SAT—which is currently required of all Harvard applicants—would cease to be an essential part of the application. Ditching the SAT has become trendy in recent years, as prestigious colleges like Bowdoin and Mt. Holyoke have joined middle-of-the-road schools like Pitzer and Hamilton in going SAT-optional...
...exclusive schools have followed their lead. Williams and Amherst colleges in Massachusetts, North Carolina's Davidson College and Virginia's William & Mary all replaced loans with grants and work-study aid starting last year. And several more schools are joining the no-loan club this fall, including Maine's Bowdoin College and California's Claremont McKenna College. "Applications were up 11% last year," says Davidson president Tom Ross. "That tells us a lot more families now see Davidson as an affordable option...
...loan-elimination program, Bowdoin will earmark approximately $22 million, or about 16%, of its $140 million operating budget. Claremont McKenna, which has 1,200 students, has said only that the school plans to increase its financial-aid-grant budget by $1 million...