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"And if Harvard abolishes tuition for undergrads, Mr. Nader said, “It will ricochet across the Ivy League.” And similar top schools, especially private schools
by browseatwork 11y ago
"And if Harvard abolishes tuition for undergrads, Mr. Nader said, “It will ricochet across the Ivy League.”
And similar top schools, especially private schools in and outside of the Ivy League. My first question would be what impact would this have on schools that actually depend on tuition to pay for things, those that aren't Harvard/Princeton/etc that don't have as huge endowments per student? Would the gap between the quality of the average student widen further between the very very top schools and the other top schools, further entrenching the status quo?
- e40 11y agoThis is precisely why I hope it happens and why it's important. It could get the trend going of free high ed.
- kevhsu 11y agoI'm not sure how this would change the gap between top schools and super top schools. Most of the top students at A tier schools already applied and got rejected by S tier schools in the current environment. So the quality of students theoretically doesn't change. What am I missing in your logic here?
- browseatwork 11y agoStudents who got into S schools would have even more reason to go to them over A tier schools. All students would have even more reason to apply to S tier schools. A tier schools, who depend more on tuition dollars and would need to charge or find other sources of funding (likely without much success- governments have been cutting funding for decades, they're all already tapping private sources as much as they can). S tier schools would become comparably less desirable. This loop would continue (other than schools who try not to charge but depend on tuition dollars falling into the A range).
- browseatwork 11y ago"S tier schools would become comparably less desirable." I meant A tier schools.