For some families, Harvard University just got a little bit cheaper. The Ivy League institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts—which costs about $83,000 annually in 2024—recently announced tuition will be free for families whose income is below $200,000 per year. If you’re a family whose household income is less than $100,00, the venerated institution will basically pay for everything. And I do mean everything: tuition, housing, fees, travel costs, event and activity fees– and if you need some cold weather gear to adjust to the Boston winters, Harvard is covering that, too. They’ll even give you a $2,000 start-up grant to get you situated; all you have to do is get in.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You still have to apply and get accepted. This is what kills me about people thinking government-paid college is a degree mill. No, you have to get in in the first place, and you must work hard to stay in.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Harvard has something like 52 billion dollars in endowment. It could afford to pay for all students tuition from just the return on the endowment.

  • SuperEars@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Big picture, this is positive news.

    That said, I doubt the Admissions and Bursar’s offices are isolated from each other.

    I see no reason to believe there aren’t donors making their feelings known that there is a limit to how far the university can go with this. I’m thinking of the Jurassic Park lawyer smugly saying “We could have a coupon day.”

        • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Not American here: isn’t a large proportion of the USA’s impoverished population made up of immigrants and people of colour?

          So… Would that make poverty BS a pseudoscientific category (partly) defined by skin colour?

            • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              2 days ago

              Okay, so since you don’t recognise that people of colour are a thing outside of America…

              Is it not a DEI program to provide Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive school admissions to the poor.

              • Mongostein@lemmy.caEnglish
                21·
                2 days ago

                They mean the term “people of colour” is BS.

                And I agree. “Coloured people” is offensive but “people of colour” isn’t?

                I roll my eyes so hard I see my brain every time I hear it.

                • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  2 days ago

                  People of colour aren’t a thing anywhere? Damn, gotta inform like… 6.5 billion people they don’t exist.

                  Do you fail to see how people of certain socioeconomic backgrounds and racial backgrounds may have different values and viewpoints thus making them worthy of inclusion by virtue of having different values and viewpoints?

                  Like… I feel like you’re focused on the racial background of this while ignoring the fact that -to paraphrase you- Poor little Mayo kids will also benefit from DEI practices that admit people based on personal experience over “qualification”.

                  Isn’t part of the American dream that anyone, of any make and model can find opportunity if they talk to the right person?