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However, Georgetown’s dean of admissions, Charles Deacon, said the increase in applications will not necessarily translate into a higher early acceptance yield...
...There’s a high probability that we will not win a percentage of those we accept,” Deacon said...
Yolanda, who--for now--has taken the last name of Sanctuary, does not cry easily; but today is unusual. An essentially merry 52-year-old from Guatemala, a deacon in her church who is more likely to break into her favorite song (Dios Es Aqu) than complain, she calmly recounts the long story of bad luck and worse lawyers plaguing her 18-year attempt to get U.S. papers. She is impassive while reporting a judge's ruling that her daughter Anabella, 17, would "not be affected by my deportation." But then she recalls the sudden sense of being hunted that...
...Deacon said in an interview last week that colleges referred to this tactic as the “Robin Hood approach”—taking more from the rich to give to the poor...
Georgetown University, for example, added a special charge of $200 per student to its tuition in 1982 specifically to make up for the loss of federal funding, according to Charles A. Deacon, who was and still is Georgetown’s dean of undergraduate admissions...