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Columbia University announced Tuesday that it will replace all loans with grants for students from families with yearly incomes of less than $50,000. “While full tuition and fees only cover about half the real cost of providing this kind of excellent academic experience, we understand that the price remains dauntingly high to most families,” Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger said in a statement. “The replacement of loans with grants for more students is another step in the right direction.” In March 2006, Harvard eliminated the parental contribution...
...spent this past summer in Ecuador—on the dime of a Class of 1936 alum whose two sons also attended Harvard. A Class of 1946 alum and his Class of ’52 brother endowed a fund that defrayed my tuition costs sophomore year; they donated to Harvard after several of their children graduated from the College...
Other issues that played a central role in the race were same-sex marriage, the funding of stem cell research, the proposed Cape Wind alternative energy project off of Cape Cod, and charging the children of undocumented immigrants in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities...
...said last week that “early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.” Students from low-income families must wait until the springtime to compare various schools’ financial aid packages, while richer students whose families can afford to pay college tuition in full can take advantage of the early admissions process. “We agree that early admission ‘advantages the advantaged,’” Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman said in a statement yesterday. Princeton officials also said that early admissions programs can cause high-school...
...said last week that “early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.” Students from low-income families must wait until the springtime to compare various schools’ financial aid packages, while richer students whose families can afford to pay college tuition in full can take advantage of the early admissions process...