Tag: Financial Aid

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    Houston (Not Texas) | From My House to Our Harvard

    Financial aid helps make the dream of attending Harvard a reality. From My House to Our Harvard | 2012 FAS Film

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    Financial aid increases by $10M

    Harvard College will increase its financial aid budget for the 2013–14 academic year by $10 million, or 5.8 percent, bringing the total to a record $182 million. Since 2007, Harvard’s investment in financial aid for undergraduates at the College has increased by 88 percent.

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    Aid fuels record applications

    Driven by historic levels of financial aid, the number of applications to Harvard College remained high this year. Applications reached a record 35,022, the third consecutive year with numbers near 35,000. Last year 34,303 applied, and two years ago 34,950 did.

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    895 admitted through Early Action

    Harvard College has admitted 895 students to the Class of 2017 under the Early Action program, an increase of 16 percent over last year.

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    Early Action applications rise to 4,856

    A total of 4,856 students have applied for admission to Harvard’s Class of 2017 under the Early Action program, an increase of 14.9 percent over last year. The Class of 2016 had 4,228 students in the early pool.

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    Harvard University endowment yields flat return for fiscal 2012

    Harvard University announced today that its endowment posted a -0.05% return and was valued at $30.7 billion for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011. The fiscal year 2012 endowment return was 98 basis points in excess of the -1.03% return on the benchmark Policy Portfolio.

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    Yielding to an invitation

    Nearly 81 percent of students admitted to Harvard’s Class of 2016 have chosen to matriculate at the College. The last time the yield on admitted students reached 80 percent was 41 years ago.

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    Record for financial aid

    Harvard College will increase financial aid for undergraduates to a record $172 million for the next academic year.

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    Applications to Harvard College stabilize

    Applications have leveled off after five consecutive years of record numbers. A total of 34,285 applications were received, a dip from last year’s record 34,950. Two years ago, 30,489 applied; 10 years ago, 18,932 applied.

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    Let the admissions begin

    Seven hundred and seventy-two students have been admitted to the Harvard College Class of 2016 through the Early Action program, which was reinstated this year after a four-year absence.

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    Harvard University endowment earns 21.4 percent return for fiscal year

    Harvard University announced today that its endowment earned a 21.4 percent return for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011.

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    Harvard increases financial aid to low-income students

    Harvard College will expand its investment in undergraduate financial aid this year by more than $10 million, providing a record $166 million in need-based scholarships to undergraduates. Beginning in the fall of 2012, financial aid will be further increased for low-income students by raising the income level under which parents pay nothing for the cost…

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    Inspired by impact

    Motivated by the collective impact of their gifts, alumni are giving immediate use funds to support the Harvard experience today and in the future. Harvard’s newest alumni were the first to reach their participation milestone with a record-breaking Senior Gift Campaign, achieving an 82 percent participation rate.

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    An unprecedented admissions year

    Almost 35,000 students applied to Harvard College for admission to the Class of 2015. Letters of admission and email notifications were sent to 2,158 students, 6.2 percent of the record pool of 34,950. More than 60 percent of the admitted students will receive need-based scholarships averaging more than $40,000.

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    Early action returns

    Harvard College will restore early action and create a new initiative to level the playing field in early admission.

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    Harvard financial aid program tops $160M for first time

    Harvard College will increase its tuition by 3.8 percent for the upcoming 2011-12 academic year, resulting in a total undergraduate package price of $52,650. More than 60 percent of students to receive need-based scholarships

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    Law firm honors deceased partner

    Law firm Andrews Kurth LLP has created the Richard H. Caldwell Financial Aid Fund, named after its deceased senior partner Richard Caldwell, a 1963 graduate of Harvard Law School.

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    FAS Dean Smith looks ahead

    As it emerges from the worst of the global financial crisis, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is renewing its focus on priorities ranging from House Renewal to innovative pedagogy. With the release of the 2010 FAS annual report, Dean Michael D. Smith, John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, spoke…

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    No ceilings

    In 2004, Harvard announced an initiative to make the University more accessible to low-income families by expanding recruitment and eliminating parental contributions for eligible students. Since then, 1,900 students have taken advantage of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Here’s how the program changed the lives of some of its first alumni.

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    Q&A with Dan Shore

    Harvard the University’s latest annual report reflects the effects of difficult strategic choices made during tumultuous economic times. The results are encouraging, but Chief Financial Officer Dan Shore says that Harvard will need to continue managing its expenses cautiously as it works through the lingering ramifications of the Great Recession.

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    Faust: Let’s break down boundaries

    Harvard President Drew Faust took questions from television journalist Charlie Gibson, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School this year, in a Sanders Theatre forum intended to kick off the school year.

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    Harvard endowment posts strong positive return

    Harvard’s endowment earned an investment return of 11 percent for the year and was valued at $27.6 billion on June 30.

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    Alumni support financial aid

    For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students applied to the College; 2,110 were accepted into the Class of 2014. More than 60 percent of the admitted students, benefiting from a record $158 million in financial aid, will receive need-based scholarships.

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    Yielding strong results

    More than three-quarters of the 2,110 students admitted to Harvard’s Class of 2014 say they will attend the College.

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    A historic year for Harvard admissions

    Harvard admits 2,110 out of more than 30,000 applicants to the Class of 2014, a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. More than 60 percent of the new students will receive need-based scholarships averaging $40,000.

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    Harvard increases undergraduate financial aid by 9 percent for 2010-11

    Harvard College will increase financial aid for undergraduates by 9 percent, to a record $158 million, for the upcoming 2010-11 academic year.

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    A first for Harvard

    For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students have applied for undergraduate admission. Applications have doubled since 1994, and about half of the increase has come since the University implemented a series of financial aid initiatives over the past five years to ensure that a Harvard College education remains accessible and affordable…

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    Jordan scholars honored at luncheon

    Longtime supporters of Harvard College financial aid, Gerald R. (Jerry) Jordan Jr. and his family established the Gerald Jordan Family Scholarship in 1995-96 to ensure that undergraduate students in need of financial support are able to attend the College.

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    Sifting Your Harvard Questions, Looking For Parenting (and Other) Lessons

    Before closing the book on William R. Fitzsimmons’s turn answering reader questions about Harvard, we wanted to reflect a bit more on the content of those questions — which ultimately topped 900.

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    Guidance Office: Answers From Harvard’s Dean, Part 1

    Over the last two days, The Choice has fielded nearly 900 questions for William R. Fitzsimmons, the longtime dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard.