Maid Service in College = Class Warfare?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2005-03-24 06:25pm

lazerus wrote:
neoolong wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:How could anyone going to HARVARD be considered a "have-not"?
A student with a full scholarship perhaps?
Because someone who's smart enough to get accepted to harvard on a scholarship is really lacking in life.

Aren't there scholarships to help those that don't have a lot of money get into expensive colleges?

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-03-24 06:34pm

neoolong wrote:
lazerus wrote:
neoolong wrote: A student with a full scholarship perhaps?
Because someone who's smart enough to get accepted to harvard on a scholarship is really lacking in life.
Aren't there scholarships to help those that don't have a lot of money get into expensive colleges?

Because of the size of their endowments, Yale and Harvard no longer require any tuition whatsoever from students whose family income is low enough ($45,000/yr. in Yale's case).

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-03-24 07:16pm

Chmee wrote:Because of the size of their endowments, Yale and Harvard no longer require any tuition whatsoever from students whose family income is low enough ($45,000/yr. in Yale's case).

But now many of those people have a GPA >3.8?

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-03-24 07:19pm

Darth Servo wrote:
Chmee wrote:Because of the size of their endowments, Yale and Harvard no longer require any tuition whatsoever from students whose family income is low enough ($45,000/yr. in Yale's case).
But now many of those people have a GPA >3.8?

Well ... I did. (Of course, those were 1980's dollars.)

Admissions & financial aid are 2 different things ... what they've done at Harvard, Yale & Princeton is basically say "If you get in and you're poor, you don't have to borrow heavily to attend our school ...."