Ms. Jenny Rickard

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  Jennifer J. RickardDean of Admissions & Financial AidBryn Mawr College101 North Merion AvenueBryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899

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  "I think one of the things that is difficult about this is that there are different ways to define financial aid," said Jenny Rickard, Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Bryn Mawr.
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  People would get admitted and then not be funded, and what happened in the college admissions community was a big debate about that, because students would get these offers and then not be able to take them," said Rickard, who went on to explain that this also led to students dropping out due to the financial burden of college. "In the whole admissions world the debate ensued and a number of schools, and Bryn Mawr one of them, decided to become what is called need-sensitive," said Rickard.
  
  The current need-sensitive practice of the Bryn Mawr admissions office entails being aware that not all students can be given funding or aid. The admissions process can be essentially need-blind for up to about 95 percent of decisions, but the last few percent of students who would require but not receive aid are placed on the waitlist. The admissions office runs a model of the admitted class to gauge how financial aid and consequently offers for admission will work.
  
  Rickard explained that need-sensitive policies are often misunderstood. "Need-sensitive schools actually award more financial aid than need-blind schools," said Rickard. "The reason that we are need-sensitive is because our applicant pool is that much more socioeconomically diverse, than if we were to be need-blind if we don't have unlimited resources. So as a result we spend four or five million dollars more on financial aid than our need-blind peers."
  
  There are no major changes predicted for Bryn Mawr's financial aid policy in the near future, apart from Rickard's hope to make the process more transparent and less complicated. "We certainly are going to be evaluating our financial aid policies and practices, in light of all of the turmoil out there. And I think what our dilemma is, is that we already spend more than most of our peers who have announced these initiatives, and we also aid more studentsâ€" So the question then becomes, how do you afford to modify your financial aid practices without compromising your ability to aid the most students," said Rickard.
  
  Despite the idea that need-blind can sound more attractive than need-sensitive, Rickard maintains that both systems work well. "We tend to flog ourselves for [not being need-blind]â€"and goodness knows I would love to be need-blind. That would make my day, but at the same time, I appreciate the fact that we have such a socioeconomically diverse applicant pool that we are able to provide access to more students," said Rickard.

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  ,Harvard has started to redefine the financial aid landscape, and it,s redefined it in a way that is quite beneficial to the wealthiest institutions,, said Jenny Rickard, dean of admissions and financial aid at Bryn Mawr. ,It is just a handful of schools that can really respond this way, but it leaves others kind of pulling their hair.,
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  Ms. Rickard, dean of admissions and financial aid at Bryn Mawr, where total costs run over $45,000, said the college had so far resisted substituting grants for loans because it would make it harder to spread aid as widely. ,The reason we have the loans is it enables us to support more students,, she said.

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  "From my perspective it would be helpful for me to have students more well-versed in admissions and where Bryn Mawr stands in the landscape of higher education," said Jennifer Rickard, dean of admissions and financial aid.
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  "The student admissions committee would be advisory, and bring student concerns relevant to admissions [to the faculty admissions committee]," said Rickard.
  
  This setup is designed to help make student, faculty, and administration input in admissions more cohesive. The students and admissions officers, who are working to create this, designed it to cover many relationships between campus groups of students, faculty, and admissions.
  
  Rumors about the admissions process or changes to that process are sometimes floated around campus. Rickard hopes the new student admissions committee will help minimize this and refute some of the speculation about admissions. "It is my hope that having students involved in the broader scope of admissions, they can confirm or deny those rumors," said Rickard.
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  Ms Jennifer Rickard, dean of undergratuate admissions and financial aid, Bryn Mawr College

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  "We still prepare a disproportionate number of women scientists," Jenny Rickard, Bryn Mawr's dean of admissions, said in describing the presentations.

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  Jennifer Rikard, dean of admissions and financial aid at Bryn Mawr, told the paper that, "When we did an analysis of both socioeconomic diversity and racial and ethnic diversity, we found it to be almost even."She said Bryn Mawr works hard to cultivate applications from minority students and low-income families and doesn't plan to end its ED program.

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  "Harvard has started to redefine the financial aid landscape, and it's redefined it in a way that is quite beneficial to the wealthiest institutions," Jenny Rickard, dean of admissions and financial aid at Bryn Mawr told the Times.

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  On the first day of Customs Week, 364 first-year students sat crowded elbow-to-elbow on the stage of the newly-renovated Goodhart Auditorium to be officially welcomed to the College by Dean of Admissions Jenny Rickard. As she usually does in her well-known welcome speech, Rickard listed off interesting tidbits and facts about the class of 2013. Although it was not surprising to learn that, for the third year in a row, the most common first and middle names in the incoming class are "Sarah" and "Elizabeth," the class of 2013 brings with it an entirely new statistic: it boasts being Bryn Mawr's most international class yet.
  
  With students representing 28 countries, 21% of the class of 2013 holds a citizenship other than US and 16% are foreign nationals without US citizenship. "This is the most international class ever on all of those metrics," Rickard says.
  
  As for why 2013's international statistics are so staggering, Rickard says that it "may be related to the global economy" or "more international students considering study in the United States and valuing a US liberal arts education. She notes that Bryn Mawr has long been known for its "global reach" and that Admissions has seen a significant increase in the number of international applicants over the years. "So," she says, "the increase seems like a natural result of that."
  
  Malina Toza, a first-year student from Calarasi, Romania, seems to agree with Rickard on the value of studying in a country other than one's own.

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  "It was just so unpredictable and volatile," said Jennifer Rikard, dean of admissions and financial aid.

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