Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]God bless that institution. Good for them! Scott B. D. Colen wrote: >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 >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)