[Leica] Harvard tuition

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

In my day, the would admit X students without consideration
of their income/wealth - "need blind."  Not really just a nice
thing to do; the theory is that if you get the best and brightest
you'll get more millionairs/billionairs who will leave their fortunes
to Harvard :-)

Then one's parent's tax returns were sent off somewhere - maybe
the same folks in Princeton who do the SAT's?  Can't remember
exactly.  These folks do an analysis and determine how much one
"can" pay. For scholarship folks, this was combined with 10 hours
per week of work, student loans with some annual maximum, and
an estimate of what one could save over the summer at a summer
job.

But it doesn't make it easy.

My own father radically changed his lifestyle. You know those little
books of "budget envelopes" you associate with little old ladies -
Food, Transportation, Rent, etc.?  Well, my father lived spartanly
out of those little envelopes the entire time that I was at Harvard
and starting 3 years later, while my brother was at Hopkins.

I still worship the ground my father walks on, if only for those years.

Scott

Craig Roberts 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).
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> Craig
> Washington, DC
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