Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's more than a big bite - and it's really tough... BTW - the $40K's been raised to $60K.... On 8/30/06 9:07 PM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote: > One of my friends is on the board at Harvard. He is very proud that > anybody > accepted at Harvard with a family income of 40K or less gets a free > ride(you > do have some campus job) but I don't think loans are part of the equation. > But then the older schools have a pretty fabulous endowments with Harvard > leading the pack so money isn't the issue these days. Selecting students > that will make a class is a tough act when you have 35000 applicants for > 1200 slots and 18000 should do fine at your school. > > I'm not eating dogfood, but paying tuition is a really big bite at a top > league school if you don't want loans. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 8/30/06, Craig Roberts <crgrbrts@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> I was accepted for admission to Harvard in 1964 but was unable to attend >> for financial reasons. Even with a miniscule scholarship (scaled, >> apparently, to my academic achievements) tuition was still -- if I >> recall -- an astronomical $3,500 per semester (though I may have that >> figure entirely wrong). For my middle-class parents, this was beyond >> all means or reason and the upper limit of my ability to support myself, >> as I soon learned, was about $1.65 an hour. Besides the inordinate >> expense, Mom and Dad argued, they were not keen for me to be >> "brainwashed by the Commie teachers" in Cambridge. >> >> So, I matriculated (among other things) at the $200-a-semester >> University of Missouri where I became a Commie journalist (and was >> issued a nifty Rolleiflex MX-EVS for a semester). >> >> Craig >> Washington, DC >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information