Students are lining up now, to prove just how high they are.
Why don’t they also do something about the cost not just subsidize tuition out of their endowments?
Just goes to show how over priced and over rated they are if they can easily cut it 50%. Harvard isn’t what it used to be ... .
Terrible headline. I couldn’t understand why Harvard would be giving aid to high students. When did getting high become so valued?
Oh, never mind....
“The move also comes as members of Congress, concerned that tuition has outpaced inflation, have been discussing whether universities should be required to spend a minimum amount of what their endowments earn on student aid. Harvard has a $35 billion endowment, the highest of any university.”
LIBERALS, as Harvard University is ... are notorious for NOT spending THEIR money but TAKING as much as they can get from YOU!
Are SARA RIMER and ALAN FINDER just plain stupid!? My 4-year old boy can write better headlines than this and I’ve seen him eat dirt in the backyard.
It’s certainly about time that prestigious universities returned to the idea of rewarding merit, promise, and ability as the primary considerations.
We have had huge problems with some of our kids. One of my daughters had outstanding grades from a top rated high school, got astronomical SATs, and won a National Merit Scholarship. She was admitted into the best colleges, every one that she applied to, including Williams and Dartmouth (she didn’t apply to Harvard). BUT Williams and Dartmouth wouldn’t offer her a dime of scholarship money, although she reported that they were giving full four-year scholarships to other students who visited with her because they were designated minorities.
She ended up going to the University of New Hampshire, which anachronistically still seemed eager to award merit. Another of my daughters is now going there for the same reason.
Maybe Harvard is starting to realize that you can only afford to take in so many middling affirmative action kids, and lose so many of the brightest applicants, before you lose the cachet of being a top school that turns out the best and brightest.
It's a laugh how the authors have to spin so hard to try and distinguish "middle class" from "upper middle class". The committed leftists in their target audience firmly believe that anyone making more than $70,000 (or is it $50,000?) is "rich" - just ask an Edwards or a Clinton or an Obama (or a Kerry, or a Kucinich, or a Dodd, or whatever - that's where they would draw the line at phony "middle-class" tax cuts).
For the NYT to suggest that a family income of $180,000 per year solidly qualifies you for inclusion in "the middle class", without even softening that truth with weasel words such as "for a family of four", is heresy of the highest order which is so intolerable to the oh-so-tolerant left, that they feel obligated to trot out all of the qualifying words to soften the blow on those fragile leftists' psyches.
But the word is out, the leftists' 'bible' has spoken, and all of those confused leftists who don't know what to think about a subject until they read their talking points in the NYT are going to have to make adjustments. Of course, class warfare is one of their cherished institutions, and they will not let go of even a small portion of it without a fight. I predict that soon we will see an asterisk with fine print in the Demo-Commie campaign literature explaining that when they say "middle class", they are excluding the members of the "middle and upper middle class" so that they can target the "poor middle class". What a bunch of Communist clowns...
I received this e-mail some time ago — can anyone confirm?
Harvard University announced over the weekend that from now on
undergraduate students from low-income families will pay no tuition. In
making the announcement, Harvard’s president Lawrence H. Summers said,
‘When only 10 percent of the students in Elite higher education come from
families in lower half of the income distribution, we are not doing
enough. We are not doing enough in bringing elite higher education to the
lower half of the income distribution.’
If you know of a family earning less than $60,000 a year with an honor
student graduating from high school soon, Harvard University wants to pay
the tuition. The prestigious university recently announced that from now
on undergraduate students from low-income families can go to Harvard for
free...no tuition and no student loans!
To find out more about Harvard offering free tuition for families making
less than $60,000 a year visit Harvard’s financial aid website at:
http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/ or call the school’s financial aid office
at (617) 495-1581.