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>MIT was founded to be a utopia of meritocracy where no one cared where you were from or who your father is, all anyone wanted to know is "can you do the work?"
by mwerty 19y ago
>MIT was founded to be a utopia of meritocracy where no one cared where you were from or who your father is, all anyone wanted to know is "can you do the work?"
At $34k a year? The key word is 'founded' I guess.
- pius 19y agoActually, MIT has need-blind admission AND guarantees to meet 100% of all admitted students' financial need (as determined by FAFSA). I got well over $120,000 in scholarships without which I couldn't have gone.
- pchristensen 19y agoHow long has this been going on and how well is it publicized? A dozen years ago when I was applying to colleges, I really wanted to go to MIT but tuition was more than my mom earned a year so I didn't even apply. That's great if other good students can avoid missing out like I did.
- pius 19y agoThat's a real shame and, sadly, that kind of thing is pretty common. The school's commitment to meeting 100% of need is not very well publicized, unfortunately. Even now, I talk to many really promising high school students who are discouraged from applying to MIT for the very same reasons you were. The need-blind admission has been going on forever and the commitment to meet 100% of financial need has been going on for a long time, though I can only say with certainty that it's been in play since 1998 (when I first started looking seriously at the MIT admissions materials). The good news is that a lot of other "elite" schools are doing this now too. If anyone here knows a smart kid with an expensive dream school, definitely advise them to apply now and worry about the money later.
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