HARVARD'S TUITION ANNOUNCEMENT

[MzDoctaKay]

Harvard is offering free tuition for students that have a family income below $40,000. If you are a mentor or have nieces and nephews who might be interested, please give them this information. If you know anyone/family earning less than $40K AND has a brilliant child near (or ready) for college, please pass this along. 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's free tuition offer, visit Harvard's financial aid website at: http://www.fao.fasharvard.edu/fact_sheet.htm or call the school's financial aid office at (617) 495-1581.

[nikki1920]

What about graduate students?

[MzDoctaKay]

Now that's a good question! However, I am assuming that they figure a person with a college degree is earning enough to stay out of the poverty category. I'm anxious to know the answer to that question, though....why not check it out?

[lovelyivy84]

This is nice. But Harvard is not a place you start preparing for in 11th grade- you have to build your resume with Harvard in mind, lol (says the person who never applied). I knew a girl in high school- straight a's, pretty good scores, student body pres, hispanic, still didn't get in.

Point? If you are mentoring 8th/9th graders or academically STELLAR 11th graders- now is the time to tell them about this.

[Sistermadly]

The link above doesn't work - is there another one?

[alum]

Try this:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/...30-finaid.html

I agree with lovelyivy. You can't start early enough. My 12 yo son wants to design automobiles or computers. He will need to get a MechE or CS degree. You bet he is in tech camps every summer as well as starting on a track to get him into Calc as a hs soph. so he can demonstrate his prowess for mathematics.

[BlessedOne04]

Originally Posted by MzDoctaKay

Now that's a good question! However, I am assuming that they figure a person with a college degree is earning enough to stay out of the poverty category. I'm anxious to know the answer to that question, though....why not check it out?

Now a days having a college degree doesn't imply earning power!!! However there is more funding available for graduate students.

[MzDoctaKay]

Originally Posted by lovelyivy84

This is nice. But Harvard is not a place you start preparing for in 11th grade- you have to build your resume with Harvard in mind, lol (says the person who never applied). I knew a girl in high school- straight a's, pretty good scores, student body pres, hispanic, still didn't get in.

Point? If you are mentoring 8th/9th graders or academically STELLAR 11th graders- now is the time to tell them about this.

Excellent point, although there are many students that can and do get in, but don't go because they don't have the money.... this will be a terrific solution.

I wonder if this opportunity will be around by the time I have children and put them through high school...

[MzDoctaKay]

Originally Posted by Sistermadly

The link above doesn't work - is there another one?

My apologies, sis. This was emailed to me and I decided to put it into circulation.... My only recommendation would be to call the office or navigate onto that page by going to Harvard's site.

[MzDoctaKay]

Originally Posted by BlessedOne04

Now a days having a college degree doesn't imply earning power!!! However there is more funding available for graduate students.

True, that's why I was careful to state, "poverty category"..... you may not be earning what the college fairy used to tell us we would someday earn once we graduated, but at least you are in line to compete.

[LPIDelta]

Sorry to crash--I believe the other ivies have similiar programs, although I believe the dollar amounts vary. I know Stanford does for sure.

[Munchkin03]

Princeton has a similar program, and Columbia and Yale in the process of eliminating loans for kids who come from families making less than $50K. But, the schools who do this are far outnumbered by those who don't. Some of their peer institutions have eliminated the work requirement for first-year students. Most colleges don't have the endowment that Harvard has to pull this off.

Only about 9% of kids who apply to Harvard are actually accepted--so, even for minority students, it's not easy.

These tend to apply to undergrads ONLY.

[MzDoctaKay]

Originally Posted by Heather17

Sorry to crash--I believe the other ivies have similiar programs, although I believe the dollar amounts vary. I know Stanford does for sure.

Don't be sorry to crash, Heather. That's important to note. When you say "...the dollar amounts vary", is that say not all of them are free?

I am going to begin compiling a list soon. Thanks for the info.

[starang21]

Originally Posted by alum

He will need to get a MechE or CS degree.

he should head to MIT instead, then.

[LPIDelta]

Originally Posted by MzDoctaKay

Don't be sorry to crash, Heather. That's important to note. When you say "...the dollar amounts vary", is that say not all of them are free?

The dollar amount in terms of family income to qualify for free tuition varies between the schools. At Stanford, families under $45k are free and under $60,000 are reduced (an article I read said they would pay $4,000 a year).

At the university I work at, we too, have a "free tuition" program for families making under $25,000 a year. I view it more as a marketing plan than anything, because these students would have gotten "free tuition" anyway because of qualifying for Pell Grants. At the ivies that have this program it is different because they are providing some benefit due to their tuition would be well over what a Pell Grant would cover.