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🎓 FREE Tution - Harvard University 🎓

Mz iMac — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:04:26 GMT

Harvard University President Alan M. Garber and Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Hopi Hoekstra on Monday announced that Harvard College will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $100,000 or less and tuition-free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less. This significant expansion of financial aid, which begins in the 2025-26 academic year, will make Harvard affordable to more students than ever, especially from middle-income families.

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lgfan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:09:44 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
Harvard University President Alan M. Garber and Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Hopi Hoekstra on Monday announced that Harvard College will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $100,000 or less and tuition-free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less. This significant expansion of financial aid, which begins in the 2025-26 academic year, will make Harvard affordable to more students than ever, especially from middle-income families.

SOURCE: FULL artical---> NBC dot com

You know this will mean that students from wealthy families will become emancipated so their parents' income won't be considered for the tuition requirements.

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kaydee50 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:11:26 GMT

I think ALL education should be free up to and including 2 years post high school.

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JoyFilled Warrior — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:16:11 GMT

@Mz iMac WOW!!! Thank you!

This is definitely, serious, "Food for Thought!"

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mrshckynut — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:38:03 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
I think ALL education should be free up to and including 2 years post high school.

@kaydee50 how about skilled trade schools free up to 2 years post high school or GED seems like most seem to think college is the answer while skilled trade have millions of job openings

mrshckynut

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meem120 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:49:04 GMT

I think it's wonderful but I wonder what precipitated this decision.

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DSD2 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:56:46 GMT

I think that's wonderful!!

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Venezia — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:19:32 GMT

@mrshckynut wrote:
@kaydee50 wrote:
I think ALL education should be free up to and including 2 years post high school.

@kaydee50 how about skilled trade schools free up to 2 years post high school or GED seems like most seem to think college is the answer while skilled trade have millions of job openings

mrshckynut

@mrshckynut - The post said "ALL education". Last I knew, skilled trade schools and a GED were considered education. The post never specified college.

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Desert Lily — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:02:38 GMT

Please note that it's only the tuition that's waived for families making under $200,000. Living expenses (I think the article I read said $26,000 per year) are not included.

Tuition, food, housing, health insurance, & travel expenses are paid for those students from families making under $100,000.

Back in 2012, I believe the qualifying amount for a single parent household income was around $60,000 at my child's ivy league university. All scholarship $ & grant $ earned in high school by my child went to the university. My child was on my health insurance (children can stay on until age 26), & I footed the bill for travel expenses, extra food, extra sundries, internship travel & expenses for unpaid internships, etc. In 2015 or 2016, a law was passed that interns had to be paid for their work.

Even if students tried to wait 2 years of being off their parents' support, they'd be required to show what they accomplished during those 2 years. Were they attending a different university? Were they working? Etc.

Offering free tuition to families making less than $200,000 is a way to include highest achieving students from other economic levels besides the top 5%.

Only about 3.5% of students who apply to Harvard are accepted.

I put $300-$400 per month in a joint account for incidentals & spending $ for my child. I remember I ended up eating bread sandwiches (no $ for anything on them) and crossing my fingers that the gas fumes left in my car's gas tank near the end of my paycheck period would get me to work through the end of that 2nd week.

Helping those students' families that make less than $100,000 with the actual encompassing expenses is a good thing.

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Goldengate8361 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:02:12 GMT

The acceptance rate is less than 4%....and that's among applicants that apply, thinking they might actually get accepted. I think their endowment is super large, so if someone actually gets accepted within those incomes, this is a good deal, of course.

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skatting44 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:06:51 GMT

the're afraid that their millions or more in endowments will be taxed , so here comes some morsels to make Harvard look like it is so chairtiable

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Sooner — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:30:25 GMT

@kaydee50 wrote:
I think ALL education should be free up to and including 2 years post high school.

@kaydee50 I think you need to get on with your life by the time you are in college and if it takes you longer because you have to work and go to school, it just adds to your experience and maturity for having a life. And that's from a couple who took about 10 years to pay off the loans.

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catter70 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:21:15 GMT

Nothing's free. We all pay for that. I've never had children and I don't think it's fair that I have to pay any school tax or at least get a senior discount of some kind. I've been out of school for over 50 years.

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They CallMe MRWILKES — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:11:55 GMT

Harvard has the largest endowment among all higher education institutions: over $53 Billion.

The annual income thrown off alone could cover tuition and expenses for every student quite readily. And that's without even touching the corpus. It's Harvard's money, not mine. They can do what they choose. Nothing to do whatsoever with taxpayer funding.

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millieshops — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:03:54 GMT

@catter70 You are so right that nothing is free. Whether we

are talking education or shipping charges or outright theft, free means someone else pays. The expense does not go away.

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Greeneyedlady21 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:09:11 GMT

Harvard is filthy rich, NO TAXPAYERS will be paying for any free tuition there.

Expected response here, but where's the outrage about low and middle income taxpayers paying for tax breaks for the rich?

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Greeneyedlady21 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:10:52 GMT

@catter70 wrote:
Nothing's free. We all pay for that. I've never had children and I don't think it's fair that I have to pay any school tax or at least get a senior discount of some kind. I've been out of school for over 50 years.

You're talking about public schools, Harvard is a private institution.

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busymom22 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:02:36 GMT

The acceptance rate for a non-legacy student hovers around 2%. Legacy students are those who already come from wealthy families so this won't impact them.

As someone else said, this does not include living expenses. Because housing in general has skyrocketed by the time you include everything like room and board it's still around $25k per year.

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ThinkingOutLoud — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:26:17 GMT

Free or not, I wouldn't want any of my family members going there.

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Barbara-QVC — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:55:38 GMT

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