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Brown ends tuition for lower income students
3:11PM ON
02/25/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
Not in the headline: Tuition will increase for higher income students. Yay, redistribution! Huge move for Brown, keeping itself competitive for our nation’s best and brightest students.
The NYT has the story:
Brown University is eliminating tuition for students whose parents earn less than $60,000, after decisions by fellow Ivy League universities to bolster financial aid as their endowments grow.
The university, in Providence, R.I., said on Saturday that it also planned to substitute grants for student loans in the financial aid packages of students whose families earned less than $100,000 a year. The new program cuts reliance on loans for all students regardless of family income, the university said in a statement posted on its Web site.
Brown also announced plans to increase tuition by 3.9 percent for the 2008-9 academic year to $36,928. With room and board, the costs are $47,740 for one year.
Brown’s admission policies favor Rhode Island students, and one has to imagine that this policy is going to help RI students who are admitted but unable to fathom being yoked by a six-figure student loan package.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:20PM
lisa Says:
As a current BROKE CCRI student but HOPEFUL Brown student (finishing my application tonight) I am nothing if not ECSTATIC about the elimination of tuition for a hard working but poor RI resident like myself….I hope I am one of the few that are blessed and can in turn tell Sallie Mae to suck it!!
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February 25th, 2008 at 6:27PM
raininri Says:
Does this mean one could consider free graduate school, or is this policy for undergrads only?
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