The university also revisited the "need blind" admissions policy.
It is commonplace today for schools either to claim a "need blind" admissions policy or to aspire to one.
In the early 1960's, a new "need blind" admissions policy, promising prospective students that lack of money would not bar them from Harvard, infused the campus with young people of more diverse backgrounds.
Similarly, need-blind admission cuts both ways.
The college team hopes in time to build up its endowment so that it can move towards "needs-blind" admission.
At a college that has need-blind admission, a family's ability to pay does not factor into an admission decision.
Joshua McTaggart, 19, a former state-school pupil from Weston-super-mare now studying history at Harvard, said it was cheaper for him to study in the US because of Harvard's system of "needs-blind admission".
The agenda for his meeting with Mr Byrne stated that "government should invest in education at all levels... Variable fees, with guaranteed needs-blind admission, would be an effective way of doing this".
At a forum last fall, Mark S. Wrighton, the chancellor of Washington University, said of need-blind admission, according to the student newspaper, "It's not our highest priority" — a comment that Mr. Berg said was taken out of context.
"Brown Adopts Need-Blind Admissions Rule" (news article, Feb. 24) reports that to pay for the new policy of adopting a completely need-blind admission policy, Brown University will "tap a number of sources, including raising the tuition of full-paying students".
4 Hickman's color-blind admission policy (in which universities do not consider race at all) differs from color-blind affirmative action (in which colleges implicitly favor minorities).
