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According to Yale Director of Financial Aid Donald McM. Routh, programs like this were once common in the Ivies. Harvard at one time offered similar incentives in its National Scholars program, which was scrapped in the early 1990s...
Yale, Princeton, Harvard and Dartmouth have all dropped preferential packaging in recent years, according to Betterton. He said Columbia and Cornell continue to use the program in addition to UPenn. Financial aid officials from those two schools did not return phone calls this week...
Routh said that Penn had previously offeredfive different levels of self-help aid, whichdiminished based on a student's attractiveness tothe university. The new program goes further bycompletely eliminating self-help for the 50Trustee Scholars...
...What we did was hard [to follow]," Bettertonof Princeton said. "I think [Penn] looked at thesize of their population and the size of theirendowment and realized that they could not do asblanket a program...
Darryl C. Li '01, a member of WHRB who conceived the idea for the show, said the program follows a magazine style, mixing interviews with famous guests with music and WHRB commentary...