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Article: Quiet Financial Aid Battle an Experiment Before Fall Policy Change
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- June 4, 1998
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DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD and JOSHUA L. KWAN
University Wire
06-04-1998
(Harvard Crimson) (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Leslie A. Munoz '02 was hooked on Harvard. But Byerly Hall needed an extra $2,000 to reel her in. A middle-income public school student from Pueblo, Colo., Munoz was admitted to Harvard, Stanford and several public schools in her home state earlier this year.
In years past, her decision might have been a walk for the world's most prestigious University. But Harvard's original offer was low, and it took a last-minute gift to win her away from a free ride at a state university.
Like first-years for decades, Munoz is now looking forward to Yard life, but the effort it took to ...