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...students spend so much time in huge, impersonal lectures? For the money you pay in tuition, students and their Nobel laureate professors should be on a first-name basis. Shouldn't Harvard have enough course choices to allow for meaningful student-teacher interaction...
...tuition just go up? This is the highest percentage increase in nine years. Where is your money going, exactly...
...facing hostility on the home front as well. Harvard announced a 3.5 percent increase in college tuition last week--the first time in nine years that the annual percentage increase has risen. Okay, so our tuition has gone up again. Nobody expected it would fall. And with the increase in financial aid--that extra $2,000 they tossed our way--nobody should be complaining, right...
Well, no, actually, that's the problem. What high tuition and high financial aid is supposed to amount to, essentially, is a progressive tax on higher education. The more you can pay, the more you do, just like income taxes. But, unlike income taxes, the percentage of your income you pay declines dramatically after you pass a certain mark. In other words, someone whose family is very wealthy will find that Harvard tuition eats up only a small percent of his or her family income. Someone who is on that mark (where Harvard determines your "need") will find that Harvard...
...theory, Junior Parents' Weekend is a chance for our kin to catch a glimpse of our Harvard years--to slum it a bit with us college folk, to make sure we've been eating and sleeping properly and, of course, to find out where, exactly, all their tuition money has been funneled for the past three years. Harvard invites our parents to the Square for the weekend, the weekend being the most, shall we say, intriguing aspect of any college student's week. We have, however, been thrown something in the form of a bone: an events schedule packed full...