Free Harvard Education

[BCam]

I posted this on the other side, but thought it might do some good here as well.

I just got this information from our daughters' high school.
I find it really exciting as an opportunity for deserving, young student scholars,

If you know of a kid who might qualify for this program, please pass this information along.


BCam


" 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. "

[ztirffritz]

They still have to have the chops to get accepted. That is no small task.

[mrbigstuff]

also, check out local scholarships. go to Scholarship America (click on Student Resources) and they will direct you to resources available. But be certain to look into the local weird scholarships for people with the name "Lynch" and people with four toes, etc. There are lots of weird scholarships that can add up to real money when aggregated.


FYI: that info from Harvard has been true for at least a couple of years now and I believe other universities have replicated some of those scholarships.

[pRICE cUBE]

With the size of Harvard's tax exempt endowment, I am not surprised they are doing this. It is worth billions according to a news story I heard.

[NewtonMP2100]

hehehe. . .yup. . .Harvard has one of the largest 'endowments'. . .hehehe. . .

[timg]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
With the size of Harvard's tax exempt endowment, I am not surprised they are doing this. It is worth billions according to a news story I heard.

With their endowment, they don't NEED to charge any student tuition.

[mrbigstuff]

I think that there are other universities now doing this but I don't know of any comprehensive list.

[$tevie]

Stanford and Yale, I believe. And possibly more.

It's a great opportunity for an exceptional student who wouldn't have a chance to go otherwise. My guess is that the competition is fierce but it couldn't hurt to try.

[testcase]

I believe MIT has put their entire course catalog online. You won't be able to be credited for the work though.

[onthedownlow]

There are some tricks to this...but what a great opportunity for the many, many smaller-town students where the median or even average income is very low (~$22,000) - mainly due to the cost of living and local industry opportunities.

In these towns you can actually find many of these types of honor students with very high extracurricular activities and super-high ACT/SAT scores.

I would of easily considered this if it was an opportunity during my time.