Harvard says tuition will be free for families making $200K or less

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Source: ABC News

March 17, 2025, 11:53 AM


Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year.

"Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and personal growth," Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement. "By bringing people of outstanding promise together to learn with and from one another, we truly realize the tremendous potential of the University."

The new plan will enable about 86% of U.S. families to qualify for Harvard financial aid and expand the Ivy League college's commitment to providing all undergrads the resources they need to enroll and graduate, according to Garber.

Undergraduate students from families with annual incomes of $100,000 or less will not only have tuition covered but also housing, food, health services and other student services, the university said. Students from a family making an annual income of $200,000 or less will be able to attend Harvard tuition-free, according to the school.

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[jgmiller]

1. So are they getting a DOJ letter tomorrow?

After all isn't this just another way to allow DEI students to attend?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. They seemed to be careful not using the banned words in their statement

[slightlv]

5. That was my exact thought!

I don't think I've read a more carefully considered statement before. Never using the words of DEI, they did describe DEI to a "T". I can't imagine trump letting this pass without trying to dismantle it, and probably the University. I salute the University, tho. It gives more people the chance to get a great education, and not just the "rich kids."

[Hekate]

2. Harvard has the means to do this if they choose. I'm glad to see that they are doing this.

Only one other thing needs to be in the orientation package: ongoing group and personal counseling for students who will be experiencing culture shock, and I mean that.

[twodogsbarking]

4. I qualify.

[xuplate]

6. Self serving

They need poor and middle class kids to lift the GPA average carnage from mediocre Nepos

[NNadir]

7. I advised my son to not apply to Ivys and in fact started talking about doing so...

...when he was relatively young and demonstrating he might have a shot of gaining admission to one if he kept it up.

He kept it up and had and outstanding high school career, being beat out for Valedictorian by his best friend and another student.

I saw to many very smart kids wrecked by going to an Ivy. Sadly this would include my son's best friend, who was accepted at all the big ones except Harvard.

That boy would have been a fine scientist or engineer. He had strong mathematical muscles when he was 8th grade. In fact he pushed my son and they blew through all the levels of AP calculus together.

After a year at the Ivy that boy changed his major to a humanity, a foreign language. He graduated but his job is respectable, but not appropriate to his intellectual power. I hope he's happy.

My son went, on a full scholarship minus room and board to a private university billed as a "hidden Ivy." As he approaches the end of graduate school I'm impressed with his scientific prowess.

The problem with Ivy undergraduate educations is that you have to be near the top, with little or no sweat, to get in. In high school, you're a star. Everybody pays attention. When you do get in you find yourself being among all the other high school stars; everybody was Valedictorian or nearly so. So for all but a very few, you're no longer the star. For many that's a psychological situation that is difficult to handle.

The boy, now a man, is not the only case I've seen. There have been several. I've seen total breakdowns.

Where my son went, he remained a star, had professors, good scientists, take him under their wings and mentor him, especially about the culture of science.

He has the most prominent advisor in his department, (again not an Ivy), a solid stipend, no need to TA, solid funding, and is working on projects that will make a difference, things he could take anywhere in the world after the now inevitable collapse of the United States.

I briefly was disappointed when he declined to fully engage with one of the Ivy's (MIT) interested in him for graduate school, but one of his professor mentors at his undergraduate school told him to not think about the institution so much as the advisor.

Good advice, I think.

Even free Harvard may not be a bargain.

[Sogo]

8. WOW!

Good for them!

Shouldn't be a problem.....They have an endowment worth $Billions.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. They must have a fairly large endowment to afford it.