Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >