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>They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admi
by superuser2 14y ago
>They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards.
No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions.
http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/index.html http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/inde...
As a middle-class high school senior, I would like to point at that Harvard's net price per year for me would be ~$13,000, or roughly half the in-state price of my local state school, the University of Wisconsin (~$24,000). The notion that Harvard favors the rich is BS as far as I can tell. I think it's a bit more likely the rich more consistently pressure and enable their children to prepare.
- jbapple 14y ago> >They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards. > No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions. "Need blind" doesn't imply "legacy blind" or "blind to the political connections of the applicant's family". Harvard may not distinguish between someone who can pay and someone who can't, but I would be surprised if they didn't distinguish between someone who can pay for tuition and someone who can pay for a new wing of the library.
- superuser2 14y agoAbsolutely. I'm addressing the statement that money is used as an admissions standard. If the name rings a bell to the admissions counselor, I'm sure that helps, but the people who make decisions in a need-blind admissions process don't get to see your bank account balance.
- justin66 14y agoI always assumed that they kept a small, fixed percentage of their seats open for legacy admissions. I thought this was actually something accounted for in their written policies. Perhaps not anymore. The interesting thing is that, whatever political interests they want to indulge, they need not be swayed by a potential student's family's ability to fund a new building any more than they need be swayed by a poor but gifted student's inability to pay full tuition. Their endowment is the largest of any university in the world, at $26 billion, and there is no shortage of people willing to give them more.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoWow, who do you know? My niece cost double that, as I recall.
- superuser2 14y agohttp://npc.fas.harvard.edu/ http://npc.fas.harvard.edu/
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoYeah; that calculator comes to about $60,000 for her. Ouch.
- superuser2 14y agoThat makes her family extremely well off. (Unless maybe you're in an area with super high living expenses and Harvard doesn't adjust for that?)
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoVery strange; a product being sold for a price that depends upon how much money you have. Isn't that called scalping?
- superuser2 14y agoIf you want to look at education as a privilege earned by having wealthy parents, maybe. If $60k feels like a burden to you, imagine what it would be to the child of a single parent making $35k. If everyone were charged the same price, only the very rich could afford it.