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My brother in law just finished Harvard. He got excellent financial aid, as did most in his class. Why should not accepting more people equal stinginess? They h
by ivankirigin 17y ago
My brother in law just finished Harvard. He got excellent financial aid, as did most in his class. Why should not accepting more people equal stinginess? They have, yah know, standards...
- unalone 17y agoBecause Harvard has the potential to expand out and encompass even more students while maintaining its level of quality. Unless you think no student rejected from Harvard is as valuable as the few it maintains?
- ivankirigin 17y agoI definitely think rejecting most people is very valuable. I also question the value in expansion - for anyone.
- unalone 17y agoI'd question the expansion if Harvard was bloated, but they're not. If anything they're serving an absurdly small group of people considering their size. They can afford to expand without diluting their quality. They ought to. (Hell, it would be a good competitive measure along with everything else, and chip away at Princeton and Yale.)
- ivankirigin 17y agoThey can afford to expand without diluting their quality I'm not so certain about this. Small often causes the quality.
- elblanco 17y agoThen they should simply lower the tuition cost and avoid the aid hassle. They could still just select the top 1600 students a year (or whatever the figure is)...but that would dramatically change the makeup of those 1600.
- ivankirigin 17y agoI highly doubt anyone in that group of 1600 accepted doesn't go to Harvard out of need. Anyone have stats on this?