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...three daughters through college, had also never seen so many personal appeals folded into the files. Setting aside his computer algorithms and thick-buttoned relic of a calculator, he absorbed every typewritten page. One family expected a 50% income drop; another planned to sell its home to help pay tuition. A note from a family nearly a year behind on its mortgage made Shorb chuckle. "Unfortunately," it read, "we have not been bailed out by the $700 billion government rescue." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...financial situation should not be cause for objection to the reinstatement of the transfer program. New transfer students will pay tuition while adding a very limited marginal cost to the College’s budget, requiring no new professors and being placed into existing advising programs. Although the addition of a few transfer students might require better selectivity in freshman admissions or a slightly greater burden on the House system, the benefits that they bring to the community far outweigh the costs. Harvard must reopen the option of accepting gifted transfer students, whether one, five, 20, or more. Divided among...
...Last to be relinquished in most cases is a child's enrollment in an exclusive school, where annual tuition ranges from $15,000 to $20,000. Local schools like Hwa Chong International (tuition: about $10,000) are reporting strong growth, not only because they're cheaper but also because these schools are popular with foreigners who see their children's long-term future in Asia rather than in the West. Enrollment at Hwa Chong, which offers classes in English and Chinese, jumped from 283 students last year to 440 this year, according to school officials. "The education in Chinese gives...
Cost of one year’s instruction in 1880: $200 Cost of tuition for the 2009-2010 school year: $33,696 Number of members in the cast of Acropolis Now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12 Number of performances put on this year: 38 Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844 Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10 Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300 Number...
...billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The ARRA will provide an additional $17 billion for Pell Grants in fiscal years 2009 and 2010; funding for the current fiscal year is $16.2 billion, with 6.1 million students participating. The stimulus package is also providing nearly $14 billion in tuition tax credits for middle-class families, raising the current cut from $1,800 to $2,500. “With regards to Pell grants and student loans, the funding is in place, so even though there is an increase in applications, it will have no effect on who qualifies...