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Harvard improved its already strong financial position in the '80s when it, in concert with other top schools, conspired to illegally fix tuition costs and eliminate merit-based financial aid. This practice increased tuition rates much more rapidly than most family incomes. Knowles would have more accurately described expanding financial aid as returning illegally-obtained funds to the American public. If the administration is serious about making the Harvard experience available to all, it should move to increase financial aid to working-class families. CHRISTOPHER G. ROBERTS '01 March...
...even among those of us whose family life resembles a 1950s sitcom fantasy-world, parents' attitudes toward visiting college will vary. Those juniors who are first-born or only children might still inspire their parents' awe by showing them Lowell House. My parents, by contrast, are tuition junkies well on their way to burnout. As of next year, they'll be burdened with three children in three different colleges and one in law school, simultaneously. For them, the college thing is beginning...
...them and tell them about the classes we love and the people we hate(and vice versa). And, of course, the cast of characters to whom they will be introduced will be much, much smaller. After three years here, we juniors have all become some-what like my four-tuition family in our attitude toward college. The novelty has worn...
...Thomas, the University's director of International Student and Scholar Services, recently requested that the Board of Regents offer tuition waivers to affected students. Depending on student need, the Foreign Student Tuition Waiver will cover 25, 50 or 100 percent of non-resident tuition. A 100 percent waiver would reduce a student's cost to resident tuition. For those who cannot even pay resident rates, deferments are under consideration as a backup...
...receives the rest of its funding from ticket sales, tuition from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training, concessions, tour profits and grants from the government and individuals, says Nancy M. Simons, comptroller...